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To: Ahban
An attempt to link to a similar thread.
3 posted on 04/11/2002 3:57:22 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
That similiar thread had some good stuff in it. I will post what I think are the key paragraphs from it here...

The comparative data suggest that during the evolutionary process, humans somehow altered the process of gene expression in their brains, accumulating expression differences at least five times faster than chimpanzees and distancing themselves from their nearest cousin. A similar trend appeared when the scientists examined differences in brain protein levels.

To determine if the differences between humans and chimps were indeed more than expected between such closely related species, the researchers also analyzed gene and protein expression in two mouse species that are about as genetically different from to each other as humans are to chimps. They found fewer differences in gene expression levels among the mice, further suggesting that the human-chimp discrepancy marks a special evolutionary process

Whatever could they mean by 'special evolutionary process'? Didn't they have a hard time explaning how known mutation rates for both species could have produced the differences already observed between the two? How much bigger is this problem now?

14 posted on 04/11/2002 6:30:34 PM PDT by Ahban
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