Tweak in gene expression may have helped humans walk upright

Friday, January 8, 2016 - 08:51 in Biology & Nature

Consider the engineering marvel that is your foot. Be it hairy or homely, without its solid support you’d be hard-pressed to walk or jump normally. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama, have identified a change in gene expression between humans and primates that […]

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