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The evolving human brain
Email: Melissa Lee Phillips - mlp@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20050909-01
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Three papers in this week's Science reveal genetic changes in humans that may have influenced brain evolution. Two genes involved in brain development have gone through positive selection in modern humans, according to two papers from the laboratory of Bruce Lahn at the University of Chicago. And Ajit Varki of the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues report the discovery of a recombinant protein that's expressed in human brains but not in the brains of other primates.
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