Evolutionary Genetics

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  Should we engineer animals to be smart like humans?

  BBC Future - Tim Maughan

  What if it were possible to engineer animals to be as intelligent as us? As Tim Maughan discovers, we may have already started.

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  A Genetic Mutation Renders One Family Unable To Sweat

  Popular Science - Loren Grush

  In an interesting twist, scientists have found that targeting this gene could help people who sweat way too much. In Pakistan, there lives a family of five with a unique – and tragic – condition. Several of their children cannot sweat. It’s an extremely rare disorder called anhidrosis, and while it …

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  Epigenetics: genes, environment and the generation game

  The Guardian - Angela Saini

  New research claims that environmental factors can affect the genes of our offspring. Diabetes, obesity – even certain phobias – may be influenced by our forebears. By Angela Saini

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  Mice given human brain gene learned tasks faster : study

  Reuters - Sharon Begley

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Although it's far from the sort of brain transplant beloved by science fiction enthusiasts, scientists have taken one step in that direction: they have spliced a key human brain gene into mice. In the first study designed to assess how partially 'humanizing' brains of a …

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  Sep 15, 2014