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PLoS ONE, 2013 Bone Morphogenetic Protein 15 (BMP15) is a TGFβ-like oocyte-derived growth factor involved in ovarian folliculogenesis as a critical regulator of many granulosa cell processes.
Sylvain Auclair +7 more
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Natural history of the ERVWE1 endogenous retroviral locus
Retrovirology, 2005 Background The human HERV-W multicopy family includes a unique proviral locus, termed ERVWE1, whose full-length envelope ORF was preserved through evolution by the action of a selective pressure. The encoded Env protein (Syncytin) is involved in hominoid
Duret Laurent +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Recent excavations in Level 4 at BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) have yielded nine hominin teeth, a distal humerus fragment, a proximal radius with much of its shaft, a femur shaft, and a tibia shaft fragment (cataloged collectively as OH 80). Those
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo +18 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Down syndrome (DS) is caused by trisomy of chromosome 21 and it is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability (ID) in humans. Subjects with DS show a typical phenotype marked by facial dysmorphisms and ID.
Francesca Antonaros +8 more
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On the origin and evolutionary history of NANOG. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Though pluripotency is well characterized in mammals, many questions remain to be resolved regarding its evolutionary history. A necessary prerequisite for addressing this issue is to determine the phylogenetic distributions and orthology relationships ...
Pierluigi Scerbo +6 more
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Dental functional morphology predicts the scaling of chewing rate in mammals [PDF]
, 2018 How food intake and mastication scale to satisfy the metabolic needs of mammals has been the subject of considerable scientific debate. Existing theory suggests that the negative allometric scaling of metabolic rate with body mass is compensated by a ...
Fortelius, Mikael, Zliobaite, Indre
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A novel attention-getting vocalization in zoo-housed western gorillas.
PLoS ONE, 2022 As a critical aspect of language, vocal learning is extremely rare in animals, having only been described in a few distantly related species. New evidence, however, extends vocal learning/innovation to the primate order, with zoo-housed chimpanzees and ...
Roberta Salmi +2 more
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A conditional compression distance that unveils insights of the genomic evolution
, 2014 We describe a compression-based distance for genomic sequences. Instead of using the usual conjoint information content, as in the classical Normalized Compression Distance (NCD), it uses the conditional information content.
Pinho, Armando J., Pratas, Diogo
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The effect of foot posture on capacity to apply free moments to the ground: implications for fighting performance in great apes [PDF]
, 2017 In contrast to most other primates, great apes have feet in which the heel supports body weight during standing, walking and running. One possible advantage of this plantigrade foot posture is that it may enhance fighting performance by increasing the ...
Christopher Cunningham, David R. Carrier
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EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR BELIEFS
Zygon, 1993 . Evolution of the human capacity for beliefs is considered in relation to the emergence in human phylogeny of the ability to formulate propositions, evaluate their worth as bases for action, and make emotional attachments to them.
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