A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies - one focused on ...

With the complexity of human speech and cognition, it may be difficult to believe both may be governed by a set of genes encoded in human DNA. A group of Oxford University researchers presented ...

During these encounters, not only did populations exchange genetic material, but also cultural elements. When populations interact, they may borrow technologies, beliefs, practices, and also, ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when our capacity for language arose. According to new research, genes likely to ...

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How much does the evolution of human speech owe to one amino acid? The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only ...

J Midwifery Womens Health. 2005;50(3):184-188. For example, in a white population, the most common deleterious allelic variant in the CFTR gene is CFTR delta F508 allele, resulting in the absence of a ...