In a recent study by scientists at UC San Francisco, human accelerated regions (HARs) have been identified as crucial to the rapid evolution of human brain complexity, distinguishing us from our closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees. These regions, evolving 10 times faster than the typical mammalian rate, enable the formation of intricate neural networks, which support advanced cognitive functions.
, Extavour wants to understand how single-celled entities blossomed into multicellular organisms during evolution, and how the intricate bodies of such organisms can develop from cells that all have the same genetic blueprint.
