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TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain

This Week in Evolution

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The Effects of Overexpression on the Brain

Jai is in cephalax species, the Jairus of the brain. And this refers to kind of a technical term referring to that wrinkled brain phenotype. So we have more folds in our brain relative to mice that I think are called listen cephalic or something like that,. In fact, what a baby is born with smooth brain that's listen cep Halic. But they do this puts it maybe a little bit closer to that sort of outer layer phenotypes that they're describing for the late born neurons.

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