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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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You can thank your parents for your DNA.

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Because humans share genes through sexual reproduction, passing DNA from parent to child.

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It's known as the 'vertical transfer' of DNA.

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Now imagine if you could share just one or two bits of your DNA with an unrelated stranger, through a handshake, or other incidental contact-and that stranger inserted your DNA into their genome.

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No sex. No offspring either.

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That's called the 'horizontal transfer' of DNA.

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It's obviously not how humans do it.

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But it's a mainstay of single-celled organisms like bacteria, which use the process to share antibiotic resistance genes, for example.

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And now French scientists have found that horizontal DNA transfer could be a lot more common than we thought in multicellular organisms, too-insects, in this case.

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Because by analyzing 195 insect genomes, they found more than 2,200 cases of horizontal DNA transfer between unrelated species of flies and butterflies, beetles and wasps.

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That total quadruples the number of horizontal DNA transfers previously described in all animals, plants and fungi.

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The study is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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How exactly this genetic transfer happens is still a mystery.

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Might be viruses, or parasites, doing the DNA delivery.

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But whatever the cause, it suggests that the evolution of insects, on a molecular level at least, may be something more of a shared success story.

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Thanks for listening, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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