Sweet Evolution: The Sugar Difference In Human Development

Monday, October 10, 2011 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

A particular kind of sugar molecule had a big impact on human evolution and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, according to a new study in  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the first evidence of a link between cell surface sugars, Darwinian sexual selection, and immune function in the context of human origins read more

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