[Rockhounds] Losing their tails provided our ape ancestors with an evolutionary advantage

[Paul]

linda at middleearthminerals.com linda at

middleearthminerals.com Tue Mar 5 08:59:27 PST 2024

wrote:

> Sounds interesting, but both links are  truncated...


my apologies for mangling the URL.

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-tails-ape-ancestors-evolutionary-advantage.html

Other articles are:

How humans lost their tails — and why the discovery

took 2.5 years to publish. An elegant run of experiments

in mice reveals the genetic changes that led humanity’s

ape ancestors to lose the appendage. By Ewen Callaway,

Nature News February 24, 2024

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00610-x


Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-humans-lost-their-tails/

Yours,

Paul H.