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Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

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Autism-linked genes evolved rapidly in humans. They may have aided brain growth and language. A recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by Oxford University Press suggests that the r ...