Molecular insights into human brain evolution

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7055, 2005, Pages 64-67

  Hill, Robert Sean ^a,b   Walsh, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOLECULES; PROTEINS; RNA;

GENOME STRUCTURES; HUMAN BRAIN; MAMMALS;

BRAIN;

NEUROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 24344501297     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04103     Document Type: Review

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