title: Evolution: out of the ocean.
abstract: New analyses suggest that animals colonized land sooner than previously thought, and maybe even before embryophytes (land plants). This has important implications for our understanding of the historical interactions of terrestrial organisms with each other and their physical environments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. casey_dunn@brown.edu
authors.forename: Casey W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Dunn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005580:Fossils; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000235:genetics*