Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

The nervous system—in particular, the brain and its cognitive abilities—is among humans'
most distinctive and impressive attributes. How the nervous system has changed in the …

The PANTHER classification system (http://www. pantherdb. org) is a comprehensive system
that combines genomes, gene function classifications, pathways and statistical analysis …

Searches for the genetic underpinnings of uniquely human traits have focused on human-
specific divergence in conserved genomic regions, which reflects adaptive modifications of …

PANTHER (P rotein An alysis TH rough E volutionary R elationships, http://pantherdb. org) is
a widely used online resource for comprehensive protein evolutionary and functional …

The PANTHER (protein annotation through evolutionary relationship) classification system
(http://www. pantherdb. org/) is a comprehensive system that combines gene function …

To understand the emergence of human higher cognition, we must understand its biological
substrate—the cerebral cortex, which considers itself the crowning achievement of evolution …

Identifying loci under natural selection from genomic surveys is of great interest in different
research areas. Commonly used methods to separate neutral effects from adaptive effects …

Gorillas are humans' closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable
importance for the study of human origins and evolution. Here we present the assembly and …

The identification of signals of very recent positive selection provides information about the
adaptation of modern humans to local conditions. We report here on a genome-wide scan …