The spread of alphabetical writing may have favored the latest variant of the ASPM gene

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-20

  Frost, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; ASPM GENE; AUTOMATION; COGNITION; EUROPE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE EAST; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PRIMATES; VARIATION (GENETICS); WRITING;

PRIMATES;

EID: 36349037057     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.04.039     Document Type: Article

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