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Theories about the origin of the indirect life cycles. The upper row shows the ontogenies of the ancestral organisms, and the lower row shows the ontogenies of the indirect, pelago-benthic organisms with the added life cycle stages indicated in red. The cnidarians have sessile adults instead of creeping adults.
