Chimpanzee Brain Organoids Hint at Secrets of Human Evolution
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This article is archived and only made available for historical reference. If you’d like to discover UCSF’s most recent advances in research, education and patient care, please visit the UCSF News Center. Research February 7, 2019 Archive: Chimpanzee Brain Organoids Hint at Secrets of Human Evolution By Nicholas Weiler Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Email this article Print this article A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) mother nursing her baby in Tanzania’s Mahale Mountains National Park, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where study co-author Alex Pollen was first inspired to study human and chimpanzee brain evolution. Credit: Susan K. McConnell for Cell Press.
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