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It's the First Time We've Thought of Becoming Human as a Loss

Jan 08, 2008

Over at Adaptive Complexity, Mike has a post about which genes were lost in the process of becoming human. After mentioning a few that have been discovered over the years, he writes, "These few examples were found primarily by luck, but now with the availability of multiple mammalian genome sequences, researchers can systematically search for human genes that show signs of being adaptively lost at some point in our history." Mike goes on to discuss a paper from David Haussler's team on this topic.

 

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