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Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language (newsroom.ucla.edu)
10 points by fogus on Nov 23, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Submission title is somewhat misleading. Nobody appears to be claiming that e.g. a chimp engineered with the human version of FOXP2 (the single gene under discussion) would have human-style language capacity commensurate with its intelligence - just that FOXP2 is a contributing factor.


If true, I expect we'll see talking chimps soon: adding the gene is a neu-brainer.

I'm also reminded of Bruce Sterling's short story, "Our Neural Chernobyl".




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