Human Accelerated Region 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_accelerated_region_1Article
- HAR1 is a genomic region that evolved rapidly in humans after diverging from chimps
- Conserved for ~300M years in other vertebrates but changed dramatically in humans
- Associated with brain development during embryogenesis
Discussion
- Single notable comment: human brain is a scaled-up primate brain with significant architectural changes
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