A new study shows that the independent adaptation to a ruminant lifestyle in two leaf-eating monkeys relied on parallel amino acid substitutions in ribonuclease gene duplicates. This discovery suggests that, given similar initial conditions, proteins may repeatedly follow similar adaptive evolutionary paths.
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Prud'homme, B., Carroll, S. Monkey see, monkey do. Nat Genet 38, 740–741 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0706-740
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