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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Intelligence

Science Daily: Why we're smarter than chickens - Researchers uncover protein part that controls neuron development
summary - A single molecular event in our cells could hold the key to how we evolved to become the smartest animal on the planet, scientists report. They have uncovered how a small change in a protein called PTBP1 can spur the creation of neurons -- cells that make the brain -- that could have fuelled the evolution of mammalian brains to become the largest and most complex among vertebrates.

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