{
  "id": 20154605,
  "title": "Evolutionary threat: Chinese mountain birds lost nearly half genetic diversity in 50 years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/evolutionary-threat-chinese-mountain-birds-lost-nearly-half-genetic",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-15T10:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3374287/evolutionary-threat-chinese-mountain-birds-lost-nearly-half-genetic-diversity-50-years"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Genetic diversity is nature’s insurance policy – an evolutionary safety net that provides the building blocks for natural selection. While members of the same species share a mostly identical genome, a sliver of unique genetic variants determines their individual traits. When this diversity erodes, and a population becomes more uniform, it could leave them vulnerable to the same threats and…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}