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Nature 413, 465-466 (4 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35097173
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Talk of genetics and vice versa
Steven Pinker1
Abstract
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.
"Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children," wrote Charles Darwin1 in 1871, "while no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew, or write." Darwin's observation has just been supported in a way he could not have dreamed of, with the discovery by Lai and colleagues2 (page 519 of this issue) of a gene that is mutated in a disorder of speech and language.
- Steven Pinker is in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
e-mail: Email: steve@psyche.mit.edu
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