Genes in in the human brain that only recently evolved - allowing us to speak and make complex decisions - are missing in some people with autism and learning disabilities.
‘This is the cost of being human,’ said Nenad Sestan, associate professor of neurobiology, at Yale's Kavli Institute for Neuroscience.
‘The same evolutionary mechanisms that may have gifted our species with amazing cognitive abilities have also made us more susceptible to psychiatric disorders such as autism.’
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