Sentences with phrase «bigger than a chimpanzee»
Still, the biggest shock is the fact that Flo's puny brain — no bigger than a chimpanzee's — was so capable.
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The team found that humans are equipped with tiny differences in a particular regulator of gene activity, dubbed HARE5, that when introduced into a mouse embryo, led to a 12 % bigger brain than in the embryos treated with the HARE5 sequence from chimpanzees.
At the DNA level, humans and chimpanzees are about 98 percent alike, yet the human brain is three times bigger and far more complex than the chimpanzee's.
The brains of these genetically modified mice grew 12 percent bigger than ones given the chimpanzee version of HARE5.