evolutionary

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Published in Nature, the study sheds new light on African populations that lived close to the evolutionary branch leading to Homo sapiens and helps clarify the shared ancestry of H. sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans.

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This finding suggests that plants may have adopted an unusual evolutionary strategy.

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Their dominance comes from genome streamlining, an evolutionary strategy in which organisms shed genes to conserve energy in nutrient-poor environments.

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Woodroaches are close relatives of termites and live in small family groups, making them an important evolutionary link.

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Michael Lee, an evolutionary biologist at the South Australian Museum not involved in the research, said "the new fossils from China demonstrate that the Sinsk event affected shallow water forms most severely".

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