Losing their tails provided our ape ancestors with an
evolutionary advantage, but we're still paying the price
by Laurence D. Hurst, PhysOrg, The Conversation, March 3, 2024
[phys.org]

How humans lost their tails — and why the discovery
took 2.5 years to publish. An elegant run of experiments
in mice reveals the genetic changes that led humanity’s
ape ancestors to lose the appendage. By Ewen Callaway,
Nature News February 24, 2024
[www.nature.com]

The open access paper is:

Xia, B., Zhang, W., Zhao, G., Zhang, X., Bai, J., Brosh,
R., Wudzinska, A., Huang, E., Ashe, H., Ellis, G. and
Pour, M., 2024. On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution
in humans and apes. Nature, 626(8001), pp.1042-1048.
[www.nature.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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