Scientists Just Inserted a Human Intelligence Gene Into Monkeys
By: Gaia Staff | April 16, 2019
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– A team of Chinese scientists recently inserted copies of a human gene believed to be associated with intelligence, into the brains of rhesus monkeys in an attempt to narrow the intellectual evolutionary gap. And according to their results, monkeys who were introduced to MCPH1 showed “remarkable” improvements in short-term memory.
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