Sentences with phrase «changes than the chimpanzee»

But the human neocortex has accumulated about three times more lipid changes than the chimpanzee cortex has since we split from our common ancestor.

Not exact matches

Because Neandertals are much closer kin to us than are chimpanzees, which diverged from the human lineage 5 to 7 million years ago, matching Neandertal DNA against our own has the potential to reveal genetic changes that help define who we are.

By studying the muscles of bonobos (which indicates how they physically function), the team was able to discover that they are more closely related to human anatomy than common chimpanzees, in the sense that their muscles have changed less than they have in common chimpanzees.

Furthermore, by comparing the patterns of change in humans and chimpanzees, it was revealed that HAR - associated schizophrenia genes were under stronger evolutionary selective pressure than other schizophrenia genes.

So, on average, the genes from humans and chimpanzees changed faster than genes from monkeys, which changed faster than those from mice.

October 17, 2013 Gene regulation differences between humans and chimpanzees more complex than thought Changes in gene regulation have been used to study the evolutionary chasm that exists between humans and chimpanzees despite their largely identical DNA.

The vast differences between humans and chimpanzees are due more to changes in gene regulation than differences in individual genes themselves, researchers from Yale, the University of Chicago, and the Hall Institute in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, argue in the March 9, 2006, issue of the journal Nature.