This is especially important to note because another potential human language gene, called FOXP2, was discovered in the early 2000s and people may have "jumped the gun" in calling it such ...

Other enticing clues emerged. The human version of the gene differs by just a few base pairs from that of chimps.2 More recently still, researchers found that FoxP2-knockout mice are unable to produce ...

Other proposed 'language genes', like FOXP2, which also make mice squeak differently are found in the DNA of Neanderthals. So ...

have types of note-to-note transition rules that could be expressed as 'finite-state syntax', which is a simpler form of human syntax. FOXP2 is the first gene specifically implicated in speech and ...

In 2001, British scientists said they had discovered the first gene tied to a language and speech disorder. Called FOXP2, it was referred to as the human language gene. But though FOXP2 is ...

Ever since Chomsky suggested that humans have a 'language instinct', people have been debating the possible existence of genes that underlie our linguistic abilities. Now, in the first big triumph ...