Monday, September 8, 2008

“Junk DNA” May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot

Results from a comparative analysis of the human, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque and other genomes reported in the journal Science suggest our evolution may have been driven not only by sequence changes in genes, but by changes in areas of the genome once thought of as “junk DNA.”


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