African mole rats are insensitive to many kinds of pain. As an international research team led by the MDC’s Gary Lewin reports in Science, this characteristic has allowed mole rats to populate new habitats. Thanks to a genetic change, the highveld mole rat is able to live alongside venomous ants with painful stings that other mole rats avoid.
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