Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca.
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Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca.
The fins of zebrafish develop rays roughly where the digits form in limbed vertebrates.
Arkadiusz Kowalski
Results suggest brain co-evolved with manual dexterity, say scientists, with humans by no means the outlier
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Analysis charts evolution of the joint that made our species so nimble
A new study reveals some of the crucial molecular steps on the path to bipedalism.
