Why Do Humans Often Suffer From Chronic Joint Diseases and Chimpanzees and Gorillas Rarely?

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Human joints underwent a drastic evolutionary change that made them more elastic, but also more prone to skeletal diseases than other great apes

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While humans often suffer from chronic joint diseases, chimpanzees and gorillas rarely suffer. In a study published in the journal 'Nature', an international team of researchers, led by scientists from the Weizmann Institute (Israel) and the University of Kyoto, in collaboration with the laboratory of the researcher ICREA of the UPF Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF), reveals that joint pain could be th…

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Science and Heitech: Scientists at the Weitzman Institute and the University of Kyoto have shown that the vulnerability of human joints to osteoartrosis is an evolutionary price for unique features of our species, such as the ability to run.

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Researchers at Kyoto University (Japan) and the Weizmann Institute (Israel) have compiled the first functional atlas of DNA changes that have shaped the human skeleton.