Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6934, 2003, Pages 849-857

  Carroll, Sean B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENES; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHIMPANZEES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA; FOXP2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; PRIMATE;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; FOXP2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOMINID; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037464547     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01495     Document Type: Review

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