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May 31, 2018By Elizabeth Pennisi | Science Three nearly identical genes could help explain how 0.5 liters of gray matter in early human ancestors became the 1.4-liter organ that has made our species so successful and distinctive. The newly identified genes could also...
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Three genes that appeared during our early evolution probably increased the number of neurons in our heads—but at a cost. May 31, 2018 By: Ed Yong | The Atlantic It started with some blobs of brain-like tissue, growing in a dish.Frank Jacobs, then at the University of...
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May 31, 2018 Summary Three brain development genes are found only in humans and may have helped drive the rapid expansion of the brain starting roughly three million years ago. A newly discovered set of genes could help explain how humans diverged from other apes....
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May 31, 2018by Katherine Lindemann The genes also play a role in neurological disorders, and may provide a path to their treatment A set of three genes found only in humans appears to play an important role in our large brain size, according to a newly released study....
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May 31, 2018Clive Cookson, Science Editor | Financial Times Research teams discover family of genes called NOTCH2NL that shaped intelligence Three international research teams have solved a genetic mystery of evolution: how human brains got to be so big. Two groups of...
by ktkhuu | Jun 4, 2019 | News
May 31, 2018MAR DE MIGUEL | El Mundo Un error genético cambió la forma en que se desarrollaron nuestras neuronasIdentifican 40 genes humanos relacionados con la inteligenciaLas diferencias entre el cerebro del hombre y el de otros primates La evolución es un proceso...
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May 31, 2018By Will Dunham | Reuters Scientists have pinpointed three genes that may have played a pivotal role in an important milestone in human evolution: the striking increase in brain size that facilitated cognitive advances that helped define what it means to be...
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June 2, 2018 CBC Radio Researchers in the U.S. and Europe have identified a unique human gene that seems to be an important factor in our oversized human brains, which are three times the size of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. The teams found that the gene...
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May 31, 2018By Catharine Paddock PhD | Fact checked by Tim Newman | Medical News Today A group of genes that is found only in humans and arose in our ancestors 3–4 million years ago may have driven the evolution of our bigger brains. This revelation — and the work...
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May 31, 2018 By Abby Olena | The Scientist Three members of a gene family called NOTCH2NL may have been involved in the evolution of humans’ big cortex. In the last few million years, the brains of humans and human ancestors have quickly evolved to be much bigger and...
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