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Thumbs up -- a tiny ancestral remnant lends developmental edge to humansAmerica, North America, USA | Education | 04-09-2008 02:00 | EurekAlert! > More news frome this source
(DOE/Joint Genome Institute) Subtle genetic changes that confer an evolutionary advantage upon a species, such as the dexterity characteristic of the human hand, while difficult to detect and even harder to reproduce, have nevertheless generated keen interest amongst evolutionary biologists. In findings published online September 5 in Science, researchers from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have uncovered a specifically human 13-nucelotide change that yields human limb development patterns in a mouse model system. Source: EurekAlert! | read on source |
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