Gene variants could have enabled skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes
Nature says the variants are in genes involved in producing extracellular matrix molecules, and could have helped enable those adaptations.
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Nature reports that the human skeleton’s distinctive adaptations relied on gene regulatory changes. It says variants in genes involved in producing extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal differences between humans and other great apes.
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