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Elly and her kangaroo kin? The kangaroo is reportedly far more closely related to humans than previously believed, Australian researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics or KanGo claimed recently.

They published the first detailed map of the kangaroo genome recently. Genes in the kangaroo were similar to those in humans, director Professor Jenny Graves said. "There are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order."

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