Did Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome?
It is hypothesised that the critical change (a saltation") in the transition from a precursor hominid to modern Homo sapiens occurred in a gene for cerebral lateralisation located on the Y chromosome in a block of sequences that had earlier transposed from the X. Sexual selection acting upon an...
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| description | It is hypothesised that the critical change (a saltation") in the transition from a precursor hominid to modern Homo sapiens occurred in a gene for cerebral lateralisation located on the Y chromosome in a block of sequences that had earlier transposed from the X. Sexual selection acting upon an X-Y homologous gene to determine the relative rates of development of the hemispheres across the anteroposterior axis ("cerebral torque") allowed language to evolve as a species-specific mate recognition system. Human evolution may exemplify a general role for sex chromosomal change in speciation events in sexually reproducing organisms. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d71ac767-8c05-4998-92b4-2747ebcc51652022-03-27T08:38:36ZDid Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:d71ac767-8c05-4998-92b4-2747ebcc5165EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2000Crow, TIt is hypothesised that the critical change (a saltation") in the transition from a precursor hominid to modern Homo sapiens occurred in a gene for cerebral lateralisation located on the Y chromosome in a block of sequences that had earlier transposed from the X. Sexual selection acting upon an X-Y homologous gene to determine the relative rates of development of the hemispheres across the anteroposterior axis ("cerebral torque") allowed language to evolve as a species-specific mate recognition system. Human evolution may exemplify a general role for sex chromosomal change in speciation events in sexually reproducing organisms. |
| spellingShingle | Crow, T Did Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome? |
| title | Did Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome? |
| title_full | Did Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome? |
| title_fullStr | Did Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Did Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome? |
| title_short | Did Homo sapiens speciate on the Y chromosome? |
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