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Adaptive loss of function accelerated the evolution of ancient and modern human cognition

2026-04-28

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Methods to detect accelerated evolution have identified many genomic regions with unexpectedly rapid evolution in the human lineage—significantly more than in chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. However, these methods focus on accelerated sequence evolution of short non-coding regions, leaving open the questions of how to identify accelerated evolution of molecular function, as opposed to sequence, and whet...

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Literature Corpus work: ba0e6640-a4ef-5f3b-9fce-2b11acd62dc4
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.27.721126

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