Georgia State University, Departments of Psychology, Philosophy & Neuroscience
Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine & Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Abstract:
The human sense of fairness is an evolutionary puzzle; why do we put so much value on what we receive relative to others? One answer to this question emerges from studying other species. Although fairness itself is hard to study, it can be translated empirically into how individuals respond to...
Searches for the genetic underpinnings of uniquely human traits have focused on human-specific divergence in conserved genomic regions, which reflects adaptive modifications of existing functional elements. However, the study of conserved regions excludes functional elements that descended from previously neutral regions. Here we demonstrate that the fastest-evolved regions of the human genome, which we term Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), rapidly diverged in an episodic...
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