Google Gemini’s Nano Banana lets you turn photos into 16-bit video game characters with creative prompts, custom styles, and retro-inspired designs.

But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a ...

How did digits evolve? While it is clear that they derive from genetic programs already present in fish, their precise origin ...