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Evolutionary Biology

The ability to fly is so useful evolutionarily that it has independently evolved four different times and is half way through evolving a fifth time now. Bats, or mammals, they didn't come from birds. They evolved flight on their own. And right now, flying squirrels, sugar gliders, stuff like that, these are all mammals that are slowly evolving flight. I see solar analogues got it. So saul, that's the of our star. Is one such i mean, from from asterpages point of view, i guess they'r talseti. Analogues, rat ye sol and forty erodonia, very similar to talsetis. That's

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