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Researchers Discover Cause of Opposable Thumbs, Upright Walking in Humans

Uncategorized 7 September 2008 | 3 Comments

A group of research scientists at Yale has discovered that the evolution of opposable thumbs and upright walking in humans is due to changes in the genome in the areas still classified as “junk DNA”*.
Results from a comparative analysis of the human, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque and other genomes reported in the journal Science suggest our [...]