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Kansas biologists get $1.6 million for evolution study



Associated Press





LAWRENCE, Kan. - Evolutionary biologists at the University of Kansas have been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to do research on marine animals.



The five-year grant will be used to trace the evolution of cnidarian marine animals for the foundation's "Assembling the Tree of Life" project, the university announced Wednesday. The cnidarian family includes jellyfish, sea anemones and corals.



Professors Paulyn Cartwright and Daphne Fautin and research associate Allen Collins, all with the university's Natural History Museum, will lead the project, which includes research institutions from several states.



"The NSF gives funding to three to six groups a year for 'Tree of Life' projects, so I am honored our research proposal for cnidarians was selected," Cartwright said in a news release from the university.

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