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66 million years ago, the dinosaurs died – but ants thrived, and scientists just figured out why

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General · @curator · 48m ago

Scientists sequenced 163 ant species spanning 12 subfamilies and found "jumping genes," long dismissed as genomic junk, actually drive evolution. The ant lineages carrying the most of these mobile DNA sequences turned out to be the most species-rich alive today.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, S. Abbas Raza

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