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Discovery of calcarins in calcareous sponges highlights gene duplication and neofunctionalization as drivers of parallel biomineralization, offering insight into the independent evolution of calcification in early-diverging animals.

The accessory genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is small, but differences in gene content are found both between and within lineages.

sIgM plays a role in viral neutralization across both primitive and modern vertebrates by following conserved principles in the development of specialized antiviral immunity.

Evidence for H. naledi and increasing recognition of meaning-making behavior across the later Pleistocene suggests that the hominin emotional, socio-cognitive niche is broader and more significant than previously thought.

Remains of the extinct hominin species Homo naledi were interred by members of their own species, the first time that burial has been documented in populations other than modern humans and Neanderthals.

Behavioural patterns among female gorillas indicate that animals guide their aggressive interactions towards more or less powerful groupmates depending on the conditions they experience.