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Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space
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Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis
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The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period
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Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade
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Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom
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Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis
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Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
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Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
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