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Article: Modern humans, Neanderthals shared common speech gene
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- The Hindustan Times
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- October 19, 2007
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Washington, Oct. 19 -- A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a common gene involved in speech and language.
Lead researcher Johannes Krause said Neanderthals shared some of the prerequisites for language.
The gene, called FOXP2, is the only one known to date to play a role in speech and language. People who carry an abnormal copy of the FOXP2 gene have speech and language problems.
"The current results show that the Neanderthals carried a FOXP2 protein that was identical to that of present-day humans in the ...