by Melissa Phillips
RESEARCH ROUND-UP	Enhancing the hominoid brain Email: Melissa Phillips - mlphilli@u.washington.edu News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040920-02 Published   20 September 2004

The birth of a gene that fueled neurotransmission may have been a key advance in the evolution of the hominoid brain, according to a study in the October issue of Nature Genetics. The study reveals that a human and ape brain gene involved in glutamate metabolism was retrotransposed from a widely expressed housekeeping gene in the beginning of the hominoid lineage.

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