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Nature Neuroscience 11, 382 - 384 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0408-382
Language evolution: neural differences that make a difference
Asif A Ghazanfar1
- The author is at the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. e-mail: asifg@princeton.edu
Abstract
Language is unique to humans, but did it evolve gradually or suddenly, from a chance mutation or as a consequence of a larger brain? Two studies now suggest that language may have arisen gradually from precursors in other primates.
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