The monkey in the mirror — Genetics Unzipped

Dr Kat Arney is looking at the monkey in the mirror, investigating how flipped genetic switches and long-dead viruses make all the difference between our human faces and those of our closest primate relatives.

Gene: ALPK3 (ENSG00000136383) - Summary - Homo_sapiens - Ensembl genome browser 110

What Happens When Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey?

Genetics Unzipped Podcast: Face to face - the viruses that made us human

Frontiers The Rhesus Macaque as a Translational Model for Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's Disease

Monkeys have vocal tools, but not brains, to talk like humans

Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing : r/programming

Face to face: the viruses that made us human — Genetics Unzipped

A Naturalistic Dynamic Monkey Head Avatar Elicits Species-Typical Reactions and Overcomes the Uncanny Valley

The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing