Mice With Human Fingers Means Junk DNA May Have Led To Human Dexterity
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
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 in a model system, have nevertheless generated keen interest amongst evolutionary biologists. Read More...
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