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Retooling spare parts: gene duplication and cognition

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Two new studies provide experimental evidence of how ancient genomic duplications of synaptic genes provided the substrate for diversification that ultimately expanded vertebrate cognitive complexity.

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Figure 1: How drift and selection can result in functional diversification.

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  1. T. Grant Belgard and Daniel H. Geschwind are at the Center for Autism Research and Treatment and the Program in Neurobehavioral Genetics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA,

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  2. Daniel H. Geschwind is in the Departments of Human Genetics and Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.,

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