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Talk of genetics and vice versa

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Does our ability to talk lie in our genes? The suspicion is bolstered by the discovery of a gene that might affect how the brain circuitry needed for speech and language develops.

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Figure 1: Genes and speech: a cartoonist's view of a 'language gene'.

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