Saturday, May 1, 2010

Why you can read this - and the chimps can't

Though genes are over 90% similar between chimpanzees and humans, the way the gene expression occurs still differs. "In brain cells, the number of genes and the proteins they expressed differed at least five times more between humans and chimps than among the other species in the study." Those differences can make up what how the brain works from genes on and off taking place in the human brain and chimpanzee brain such as reading.

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