Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones

New genes that have evolved in species as little as one million years ago - a virtual blink in evolutionary history - can be just as essential for life as ancient genes, startling new research has discovered. The University of Chicago study challenges evolutionary biology assumptions about the importance of new genes in development.

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