FOXP2 in focus: what can genes tell us a
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Gary F. Marcus; Simon E. Fisher
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The human capacity for acquiring speech and language must derive, at least in part, from the genome. In 2001, a study described the first case of a gene, FOXP2, which is thought to be implicated in our ability to acquire spoken language. In the present article, we discuss how this gene was discovere