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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Mehmet Somel
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-15163 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Somel Mehmet M Franz Henriette H Yan Zheng Z Lorenc Anna A Guo Song S Giger Thomas T Kelso Janet J Nickel Birgit B Dannemann Michael M Bahn Sabine S Webster Maree J MJ Weickert Cynthia S CS Lachmann Michael M Pääbo Svante S Khaitovich Philipp P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090323 14
In development, timing is of the utmost importance, and the timing of developmental processes often changes as organisms evolve. In human evolution, developmental retardation, or neoteny, has been proposed as a possible mechanism that contributed to the rise of many human-specific features, including an increase in brain size and the emergence of human-specific cognitive traits. We analyzed mRNA expression in the prefrontal cortex of humans, chimpanzees, and rhesus macaques to determine whether ...[more]