A Human-Specific Gene May Help Explain Our Extraordinary Brainpower

The new findings could help explain what made the human brain unique during evolution. A mouse’s brain immune cells mature in about three weeks. Their human counterparts take four to eight years, an unusually slow timetable that may help explain how the human brain develops its distinctive cognitive abilities. Microglia are the brain’s most abundant [...]

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