Todd M. Preuss, Mario Cáceres, Michael C. Oldham, Daniel H. Geschwind (2004). Human brain evolution: insights from microarrays Nature Reviews Genetics, 5 (11), 850-860 DOI: 10.1038/nrg1469
In a recent post, I commented on article by Todd Preuss’ research group, and compromised myself to a further attempt to describe his research programme here. As I said then, nyuanshin pointed me to Preuss’ homepage, and I downloaded a few articles – including one review paper that appeared in Nature Reviews Genetics on the insights that were obtained from microarray studies to theories of brain evolution [1]. Of course, no article can be published in Nature Reviews Something if it does not involve speculations on something that is relevant to human beings, and thus this particular paper is called Human brain evolution: Insights from microarrays. Even though I do not support such “anthropocentric” attitude from high-impact journals, it is indeed a very good review, and I shall sum it up and digest it for the few of you who read this.
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