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Fossil feet may be misleading scientists about human evolution

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (521+ words) Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed. The discovery challenges a key assumption about what the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees looked like and how it…...

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Scientists find hidden “highways” guiding animal evolution

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (521+ words) A sweeping analysis of thousands of animal genomes suggests that chromosomes do not evolve randomly but instead follow a limited number of irreversible “evolutionary highways.” These one-way genetic changes preserve clues to more than 600 million years of animal history and…...