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Scientists Switch Back On a Chimpanzee Gene Silenced by a Virus Millions of Years Old. Humans Use it to Form the Brain

25 October 2026 at 17:27
Line up human and chimpanzee DNA and the first surprise is how little separates us. We share more than 96% of the sequences used to make proteins, the molecules that build and run a living body. And yet the human brain is roughly three times the size of a chimpanzee’s, and it does things a […]

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