CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution - Philipp Khaitovich: Neotenous Gene Expression in the Developing Human Brain

12/12/2014; 19 minutes

Philipp Khaitovich (PICB, Shanghai) and his team have identified the human-specific delay in timing of neocortical synaptogenesis as one of the molecular mechanisms that potentially underlies the evolution of the human phenotype. Recorded on 10/10/2014. (#28899)

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