evolutionary

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They also suggest this mental skill may have deep evolutionary roots, possibly stretching back 6 to 9 million years to a shared ancestor of humans and modern apes.

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Scientists refer to this organism as the "last universal common ancestor," and it represents the earliest form of life that can currently be examined using established evolutionary methods.

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By examining evolutionary relationships between uracil sensors and related sensory domains, the team found that ligand specificity can change relatively easily over time.

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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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