Researchers Uncover 500 Million-Year-Old Origins of Human Appetite Hormone

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a neurohormone responsible for controlling appetite in humans has an ancient evolutionary origin, dating back over half a billion years. The findings, published in [...]

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