Monday, June 20, 2005

Did humans evolve in fits and starts?

Did humans evolve in fits and starts?
(New Scientist)
Instead, they found that the big duplications had occurred in a short period of time, relatively speaking, after which only smaller rearrangements occurred. Eichler found the bulk of the duplications were present in the genomes of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, but were absent in Old World monkeys—such as baboons and macaques.

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