{"id":179010,"date":"2023-12-24T05:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T11:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-evolution-unlocked-over-100-genes-that-make-us-uniquely-human"},"modified":"2023-12-24T05:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T11:24:04","slug":"brain-evolution-unlocked-over-100-genes-that-make-us-uniquely-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-evolution-unlocked-over-100-genes-that-make-us-uniquely-human","title":{"rendered":"Brain Evolution Unlocked: Over 100 Genes That Make Us Uniquely Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-evolution-unlocked-over-100-genes-that-make-us-uniquely-human2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The researchers found 139 genes that are common across the primate groups but highly divergent in their expression in human brains.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has uncovered over 100 genes that are common to primate brains but have undergone evolutionary divergence only in humans \u2013 and which could be a source of our unique cognitive ability.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, led by Associate Professor Jesse Gillis from the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and the Department of Physiology at U of T\u2019s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, found the genes are expressed differently in the brains of humans compared to four of our relatives \u2013 chimpanzees, gorillas, macaques, and marmosets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers found 139 genes that are common across the primate groups but highly divergent in their expression in human brains. An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has uncovered over 100 genes that are common to primate brains but have undergone evolutionary divergence only in humans \u2013 and which could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}