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Language Gene Is Traced to Emergence of Humans
by Jeremy at 6:47 am EDT, Aug 15, 2002

A study of the genomes of people and chimpanzees has yielded a deep insight into the origin of language, one of the most distinctive human attributes and a critical step in human evolution.

The analysis indicates that language, on the evolutionary time scale, is a very recent development, having evolved only in the last 100,000 years or so.

NYT covers the Nature publication.


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