Humans 10x Better Than Chimps and Macaques When It Comes to Temperature Control
Humans have a higher density of sweat glands found in their skin than chimps and macaques. In fact, they have 10 times that of chimps and macaques. Penn Medicine experts have now learned how this unique, hyper-cooling feature developed in the human genome. (Photo : Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash) Sweating Researchers found that the higher density of sweat glands in humans is due to cumulative improvements in a regulatory area of DNA called an enhancer region that drives the expression of a sweat gland-building gene, explaining why humans are the sweatiest of the Great Apes. Studying Sweat Glands ...
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