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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

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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