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By examining thousands of specimens, the team were able to identify the key species in the shallow seas and work out the relative importance of each.

The authors note that further study will be needed to understand the details of the chimps' learning process, such as the role of reasoning and memory or the relative importance of experience compared to instruction from peers.

The risks of heart attack and stroke have decreased significantly, while complications in more peripheral vessels have increased in relative importance, according to studies at the University of Gothenburg.

The researchers studied two decades of disease trends for virtually all peripheral arterial diseases in terms of long-term trends, control of modifiable risk factors, optimal levels for cardiometabolic risk factors, and the relative importance of selected risk factors.

"We also noted that the relative importance of these risk factors differs between the central and peripheral arteries, revealing differences in biological effects that cardiometabolic risk factors exert in different parts of the arterial tree. Long-term blood sugar plays a much more significant role in the development of peripheral arterial disease."