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Study: Butterflies and Moths Have Reused Same Genetic Toolkit for 120 Million Years

A landmark study of several butterfly lineages and a day-flying moth in South America shows that convergent evolution -- when unrelated species arrive at the same solution -- isn’t just a coincidence; it follows a surprisingly consistent genetic script, and this discovery could help predict how species adapt to climate change.

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