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Multiple copies of a mystery gene may make us human

From mice to monkeys to chimps to people, a brain-protein gene pumps up.

A newly discovered mystery gene may have helped build the modern human brain, researchers report today.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on August 31, 2006 07:00 PM |

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