Scientists home in on origin of human, chimpanzee facial differences
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
The face of a chimpanzee is decidedly different from that of a human, despite the fact that the apes are our nearest relative in the primate tree. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have begun to pinpoint how those structural differences could arise in two species with nearly identical genetic backgrounds.