August 15, 2002
Gene is linked to dawn of language

Given the dearth of any interesting on the web, I keep returning to the International Herald Tribune. Great journalism, as well as cool interface for reading and presenting articles online.

Anywho, interesting article about: Two critical mutations appeared approximately 200,000 years ago in a gene linked to language, then swept through the population at roughly the same time anatomically modern humans began to dominate the planet, according to new research.

Who knows maybe we'll all be doing shots of FOXP2 soon, spawning a whole new crop of Clinton's.

Word:
http://www.iht.com/articles/67765.html

Posted by crusay at August 15, 2002 12:27 PM