arotrios
arotrios@kbin.earth
<h1>For Amusement Purposes Only</h1> <p><em>The question is mine or yours?</em></p> <p>The High Corvid of Progressivity</p> <blockquote> <p>Chance favors the prepared mind.</p> <p><em>~ Louis Pasteur</em></p> </blockquote>
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Retroviral insertions contributed to the divergence of human and chimpanzee brains Abstract: Over the past 5 to 7 million years, humans and chimpanzees have diverged in brain size, structure, and cognition despite high conservation of protein-coding genes. However, retroviral infections within host genomes have introduced numerous species-specific regulatory elements. Chimpanzees harbor lineage-specific PTERV1 endogenous retroviruses that are absent in humans, but their role in brain evoluti...
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