Talk:Xenoturbella bocki

New research - ancestor of man?
This wouldn't be an unimportant worm if it were our first/closest ancestor. Not sure how to include that in the article, though. This could be important to somebody studying this worm.
 * "First" in this case doesn't mean "closest", it means that it is the oldest so far discovered. The article does say "if it is classified as a deuterostome, it would be more closely related to humans than other, more complex, invertebrates such as lobsters.[5]" and also "A 2016 analysis of many genetic data sets supports the latter, and suggests that, like Xenoturbella bocki, the common ancestor of protostomes and deuterostomes likely had one opening" but related is different from ancestor, and resembles the ancestor is also distinct form is the ancestral species. The article these news reports are referring to is here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23443565 "Xenoturbella bocki exhibits direct development with similarities to Acoelomorpha" (because this https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uog-cwk032713.php is the press release that the Atlantic article refers to and the DOI given there is 10.1038/ncomms2556.l which I think matches that article's DOI). If I understand the Nature Communications article correctly, its saying the latest common ancestor resembled Xenoturbella, which I think our page already says. Am I misreading the N-Com article? Is there more to it? --HighFlyingFish (talk) 07:39, 25 March 2019 (UTC)