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offering scientists a fascinating glimpse into a previously unknown aspect of life's evolutionary history. Dalhousie ...

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The researchers started by building a “tree of life” using Canada’s official list of species ... representing nearly 180 million years of independent evolutionary history, while Canada’s lone ...

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