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FOXP2

Noun

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FOXP2 (uncountable)

(genetics) regulatory gene and RNA gene responsible for the development of throat structures; in humans, those related to speech.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Cambridge University Press p. 259 Evolutionary psychologists hold that the FOXP2 gene may well be associated with the evolution of human language. Source: Internet

However, the once-popular idea that FOXP2 is a 'grammar gene' or that it triggered the emergence of language in Homo sapiens is now widely discredited. Source: Internet

This gene turned out to be a mutation of the FOXP2 gene. Source: Internet

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