Next, the researchers injected the slightly different
human and chimpanzee versions of HARs into both sets of neurons.
Not exact matches
Zhang compared the DNA nucleotide sequence of the
human version of ASPM to that of two of our great ape cousins, the
chimpanzee and the orangutan, as well to more distantly related animals such as rhesus monkeys, seals, dogs,
and hamsters.
The massive analysis of
human,
chimpanzee,
and monkey tissue published Nov. 23 in the journal Science shows that the
human brain is not only a larger
version of the ancestral primate brain but also one filled with distinct
and surprising differences.
Humans and chimpanzees, for instance, have slightly different
versions of the hepatitis B virus, both of which likely mutated from a
version that infected their shared ancestor more than four million years ago.