The eloquent ape: Genes, brains and the evolution of language

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-20

  Fisher, Simon E ^a   Marcus, Gary F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APE; BRAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPEECH;

PRIMATES;

EID: 29244467422     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1747     Document Type: Review

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