These baboons borrowed a third of their genes from their cousins

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Aug 4, 2022, 6:00 pm541 ptsHot
New genetic analyses of wild baboons in southern Kenya reveals that most of them carry traces of hybridization in their DNA. As a result of interbreeding, about a third of their genetic makeup consists of genes from another, closely-related species.

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