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Nature 428, 373-374 (25 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428373a
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Human genetics: Muscling in on hominid evolution
Pete Currie1
Abstract
A molecular difference in the jaw muscles of human and non-human primates has tantalizing echoes in the fossil record. Was this divergence a central event in the evolution of the skull of modern hominids?
Ever since Bishop Wilberforce famously ridiculed the possibility that man was descended from apes, and T. H.
- Pete Currie is in the Developmental Biology Program, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney 2010, Australia.
Email: p.currie@victorchang.unsw.edu.au
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