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An ancient viral infection may have given animals the tools to become fast, coordinated and smart, a new study has found. According to a paper published on Thursday in Cell, complex nervous systems arose in the distant past after viruses inserted bits of code into the genomes of vertebrates — animals with a spinal cord, from humans to frogs to salmon. In and of itself, this “invasion” is unremarkable: The insertion of such code is the major way that viruses — which have no ability to replicate themselves without the support of a sheltering cell — force cells to do their bidding. But in this case, the cells turned the new code to their own ends — a dynamic that scientists have als

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