Males have an extra brain gene

Submitted by Thomas on Tue, 2003-06-24 22:38

Here's another article on the decoding of the Y chromosome. It seems this efficient (read "excess baggage removed") bit of genetic information that makes a man a man contains an extra brain gene. No one knows yet what function this gene serves, but "the gene must have played a key role in the evolution of mankind for it to exist in the genome today."

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