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How humans got a new gene that makes our brains larger

Por: Ars Technica Science January 06, 2023

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Navigate Filter by topic Settings Front page layout Site theme - Jan 5, 2023 7:09 pm UTC / Building a bigger brain requires new genes, not a workout. Share this story On the DNA level, there's not much to distinguish humans from our closest relatives: chimpanzees and bonobos. At stretches of DNA that line up, human and chimp sequences are well over 90 percent identical. And, for the most part, the DNA does line up at genes; there are very... + full article



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