In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies - one focused on ...

What sets humans apart from other animals? One primary difference is language; reading, writing, and speaking enable us to communicate with other people in different ways and express a huge range of ...

With the complexity of human speech and cognition, it may be difficult to believe both may be governed by a set of genes encoded in human DNA. A group of Oxford University researchers presented ...

During these encounters, not only did populations exchange genetic material, but also cultural elements. When populations interact, they may borrow technologies, beliefs, practices, and also, ...

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The Speech/Language Genetics Lab is exploring methods to understand the link between genetics, speech and applications in communication disorders. According to Beate Peter, head of the lab and a ...

How much does the evolution of human speech owe to one amino acid? The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only ...

J Midwifery Womens Health. 2005;50(3):184-188. For example, in a white population, the most common deleterious allelic variant in the CFTR gene is CFTR delta F508 allele, resulting in the absence of a ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and Etonia. But that's not the full story.Researchers have solved a long-standing ...