FOXP2 in Nature

Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2: …It has been proposed that the amino acid composition in the human variant of FOXP2 has undergone accelerated evolution, and this two-amino-acid change occurred around the time of language emergence in humans…However, this remains controversial, and whether the acquisition of these amino acids in human FOXP2 … Continue reading FOXP2 in Nature