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Scientists find that insects use fast-acting ion channels to smell odors, a major break with the ideology of the field -- and evolutionDarwin's tree of life represents the path and estimates the time evolution took to get to the current diversity of life. Now, new findings suggest that this tree, an icon of evolution, may need to be redrawn. In research to be published in the April 13 advance online issue of Nature, researchers at Rockefeller University and the University of Tokyo have joined...