Uploaded January 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
We share between 94 and 99% of our DNA with our chimpanzee cousins, but how do our brains compare? Watch this video by Felipe Mora-Bermúdez to find out what he has learned from studying brain stem cells from humans and chimps.
You can read his full publication on this work in the journal eLife here: elifesciences.org/content/5/e18683
Felipe is a postdoc in the lab of Wieland Huttner at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany (mpi-cbg.de/research-groups/current-groups/wieland-huttner/research-focus/).
Learn more in the post on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2017/01/27/How-different-are-human-and-chimpanzee-brain-stem-cells
Credits:
Chimpanzee photo by Cyril Ruoso, Minden/National Geographic.
news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150602-chimp-cooking-evolution-human-brain-science
“Le Penseur” Sculpture by Auguste Rodin, photo by Andrew Horne/Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker#/media/File:The_Thinker,_Rodin.jpg
Photo of Felipe by Leonie von Löwenthal.
Video written, narrated, and drawn by Felipe Mora-Bermúdez. Edited and produced by Lisa Dennison.
We share between 94 and 99% of our DNA with our chimpanzee cousins, but how do our brains compare? Watch this video by Felipe Mora-Bermúdez to find out what he has learned from studying brain stem cells from humans and chimps.
You can read his full publication on this work in the journal eLife here: elifesciences.org/content/5/e18683
Felipe is a postdoc in the lab of Wieland Huttner at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany (mpi-cbg.de/research-groups/current-groups/wieland-huttner/research-focus/).
Learn more in the post on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2017/01/27/How-different-are-human-and-chimpanzee-brain-stem-cells
Credits:
Chimpanzee photo by Cyril Ruoso, Minden/National Geographic.
news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150602-chimp-cooking-evolution-human-brain-science
“Le Penseur” Sculpture by Auguste Rodin, photo by Andrew Horne/Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker#/media/File:The_Thinker,_Rodin.jpg
Photo of Felipe by Leonie von Löwenthal.
Video written, narrated, and drawn by Felipe Mora-Bermúdez. Edited and produced by Lisa Dennison.
