Comment on "Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in homo sapiens" and "microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve adaptively in humans"

被引：98
作者：
Currat, Mathias
Excoffier, Laurent
Maddison, Wayne
Otto, Sarah P.
Ray, Nicolas
Whitlock, Michael C.
Yeaman, Sam
机构：
[1] Univ British Columbia, Dept Zool, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
[2] Univ Bern, Inst Zool, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
来源：
SCIENCE | 2006年 / 313卷 / 5784期
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D O I：
10.1126/science.1122712
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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页码：172 / 172
页数：1
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