Sentence examples for language genes from inspiring English sources

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

FOXP2 is almost certainly not "the language gene".

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

"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.

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.

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.

Admittedly there was a trip to a zoo in Kent to wonder why apes and elephants can't talk properly, but then we were off to Leipzig and a German professor showing us a mouse that had suddenly upped its squeak quotient when fitted with his recently discovered "language gene" (it's amazing to think that we are only atoms away from squeaking ourselves).

It was later dubbed "the language gene", because its absence in some people coincides with speech problems.

Although this seems to account for KE and the unrelated boy's language disorder, researchers caution against calling FOXP2 a "language" gene.

The most widely studied language gene, FOXP2, is a potent transcription factor that has been shown to regulate another language gene, CNTNAP2 (Vernes et al. 2007; Vernes et al. 2011).