Brain evolution: Genetic layering

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 324 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.65 Author: Sian Lewis The neocortex is the most recently evolved part of the brain, and, in this study, RNA sequencing was performed on individual layers of the prefrontal cortex from humans, macaques and chimpanzees and revealed that, although the expression of most genes was conserved across all three
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