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TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain

This Week in Evolution

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The Evolution of Cognitive Ability

The big question is the evolution of cognitive ability. We're going to see like down to a single amino acid change, this is a one-letter change in the DNA code between Neanderthals and us. Now, we have to be pretty well kind of, I think, try to spend some time being a little bit careful about how we define cognitive ability.

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