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Many researchers now believe most of these disorders share a common origin: clusters of deformed proteins that pile up in the brain over the years, slowly poisoning brain cells.
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That similarity, though, is almost certainly the result of convergent evolution rather than a common origin, since the last joint ancestor of Crassicorophium and spiders lived way longer ago than the ancestor of Crassicorophium and barnacles.
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The thieves were so flippant about law enforcement that they didn't even bother to conceal the origin of their mailings, a common practice for international hackers.
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NAFTA's complex rules of origin, moving instead towards a customs union with common tariffs on goods from other countries (to be set at the lowest level of any of the three).
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Given that Crassicorophium and barnacles are both crustaceans, albeit ones whose common ancestor lived 100m years ago, that suggests a single origin for the ability to make this type of goo.
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Homo sapiens last shared a common ancestor with our robust cousins around 600, 000 years ago, well prior to the origin of both modern humans (see above) and Neanderthals.
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