This has led to the hypothesis that these evolutionarily
recent gene duplications might have participated in the emergence of human - specific traits of brain development and function (Bailey and Eichler, 2006; Stankiewicz and Lupski, 2010).
Not exact matches
Other
recent work has questioned the consequences of
gene duplications in flowering plants as well.
Recent breakthroughs in evolutionary genomics show that a burst of
gene duplications occurred in the human lineage during its separation from non-human primates approximately 6 million years ago (Bailey et al., 2002; Fortna et al., 2004; Marques - Bonet et al., 2009).