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The genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes

2021-09-16

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The loss of the tail is one of the main anatomical evolutionary changes to have occurred along the lineage leading to humans and to the “anthropomorphous apes” 1,2 . This morphological reprogramming in the ancestral hominoids has been long considered to have accommodated a characteristic style of locomotion and contributed to the evolution of bipedalism in humans 3–5 . Yet, the precise genetic mechanism that fac...

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DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.14.460388

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