Sentences with phrase «human brain evolution»
In recent years, many potential genetic mechanisms have been proposed to participate in human brain evolution.
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«This adds one more gene to the short list of candidates important for human brain evolution,» he says.
More recently, his lab started studying the genetic basis of human brain evolution as well as the signaling pathways underlying synaptic loss during early stages of Alzheimer's Disease progression.
The results support the view that human brain evolution involved cellular specializations, including the elaboration of astrocyte structure and a boost in their ability to regulate communication between neurons at synapses, the researchers say.
This rapidly evolving game created a new selective pressure that forced «Adam» and «Eve» to use their brains much more, thus forever driving human brain evolution forward.
Hawks counters that it might be a little early to begin drawing conclusions about human brain evolution from genetic comparisons with archaic relatives.
Martin, R. D. Human brain evolution in an ecological context.
«Our findings suggest that schizophrenia vulnerability rose after the divergence of modern humans from Neanderthals,» said Andreassen, adding that the results of their study support the hypothesis that schizophrenia is a by - product of human brain evolution.
It showed their evolutionary line splitting off from our own a little over 550,000 years ago, before modern humans emerged and before key changes in human brain evolution.
Far from a way to engineer smarter rodents, the work suggests that human brain evolution involved a major upgrade to cells called astrocytes.
The researchers then looked at whether those nine metabolites might be important in human brain evolution.
In September they announced they had found key clues to human brain evolution.
A cross section of human cortex shows the distribution of a protein fragment (red) that may have been key to human brain evolution.
Research interests: primate comparative genomics, adaptive evolution, human brain evolution, infectious diseases in primate hosts, HIV / SIV and AIDS, evolutionary medicine, colobines
To enhance the utility of chimpanzees as a reference species for comparative studies to better understand the structure, function, and evolution of the human brain
Increased morphological asymmetry, evolvability and plasticity in human brain evolution.
Comparative methylome analyses identify epigenetic regulatory loci of human brain evolution.
The origin of the Acheulian is thought to have closely coincided with major changes in human brain evolution, allowing for further technological developments.