HUNDREDS OF BIG SURPRISES. “A more dramatic example is the recent evolution of a toxin resistance in three species that diverged more than 500 million years ago – a clam, a snake and a pufferfish – via the same amino acid substitution in a conserved gene. Such striking patterns of genetic repetition have now been found for more than 100 genes in animals and plants.”
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