Study sheds light on evolution of human complexity

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

A painstaking analysis of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising from duplicate genes.

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