Tuesday, October 11, 2011

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News


Sexual selection by sugar molecule helped determine human origins, researchers say

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Researchers say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, the genus Homo.

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