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The uniqueness of human vulnerability to brain aging in great ape evolution.
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- Expression patterns of risk genes associated with three evolutionarily relevant syndromes in rhesus macaque and human brains.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Evolution of the frontal aslant tract and implications for primate vocalization and human speech.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Recent advances in model systems for interrogating diseases of brain aging and associated dementia: Toward human-relevant endophenotypes.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2025Review
- An anthropoid/strepsirrhine divergence in ventral visual stream connectivity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Human Brain Cell-Type-Specific Aging Clocks Based on Single-Nuclei Transcriptomics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Biomarkers of ageing of humans and non-human primates.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025Review
- Exploring the singularity of human neurons: keep calm and carry on.Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2025Review
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Abstract
Aging is associated with progressive gray matter loss in the brain. This spatially specific, morphological change over the life span in humans is also found in chimpanzees, and the comparison between these great ape species provides a unique evolutionary perspective on human brain aging. Here, we present a data-driven, comparative framework to explore the relationship between gray matter atrophy with age and recent cerebral expansion in the phylogeny of chimpanzees and humans. In humans, we show a positive relationship between cerebral aging and cortical expansion, whereas no such relationship was found in chimpanzees. This human-specific association between strong aging effects and large relative cortical expansion is particularly present in higher-order cognitive regions of the ventral prefrontal cortex and supports the "last-in-first-out" hypothesis for brain maturation in recent evolutionary development of human faculties.
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