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[ad_1] The question of whether a 7-million-year-old primate nicknamed “Toumai” walked on two or four legs has sparked drama among paleontologists, complete with a missing femur. From the discovery of Sahelanthropus tchadensis’s first fossil in 2001, it has often been cited as our first known hominin ancestor. Initial analysis suggested …

[ad_1] A human gene injected into the monkeys’ brains not only made them larger, but also increased the function of neurons, making the animals more human. Marmoset brains are much smaller and smoother than the human brain and during evolution the neocortex of our brain has “folded” to form the …