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The importance of being human

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The FOXP2 gene is implicated in the development of human speech and language. A comparison of the human and chimpanzee FOXP2 proteins highlights the differences in function in the two species.

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  1. Martin H. Dominguez and Pasko Rakic are in the Department of Neurobiology and the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA. pasko.rakic@yale.edu,

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