Sentence examples for language gene from inspiring English sources

FOXP2 is almost certainly not "the language gene".

"People shouldn't think of this as the one language gene but as part of broader cascade of genes," he said.

Those with the language gene would have outcompeted all other groups, so that language become universal in the surviving human population.

"People shouldn't think of this as the one language gene but as part of a broader cascade of genes," he said.

Dr. Klein's idea that a language gene preceded human modernity reflects the theory first advanced in 1959 by the linguist Noam Chomsky, that language ability is innate, implying that there is a dedicated language organ embedded in the brain's circuitry.

Other genes involved in language will be found in coming years and their effects will be found to vary among other people.' He also stressed that FOXP2 is not 'a language gene' or 'grammar gene', as some commentators have suggested.

O.K., granted, FOXP2 is only one of the so-called "language genes," many of which remain to be discovered.

The Cross River region was shown to be extremely homogenous for both Y-chromosome and mtDNA markers with language spoken having no noticeable effect on the genetic structure of the region, consistent with estimates of inter-language gene flow of 10% per generation based on sociological data.

"I am inclined to think there probably aren't such things" as language or speech genes, Dr. Tomblin said.

However, the Bantu language-gene spread is likely not the only dispersal to have left genetic traces in African extant populations.

In zebra finches, expression levels of a number of known genes (Arc, Egr-1, Fos, SytIV), change during UD singing [18] [26], [29], including the speech and language-related gene, FoxP2 [28], [28], (Teramitsu et al. companion article).