05.31.09
‘Humanized’ Mice
Why Can We Talk? ‘Humanized’ Mice Speak Volumes About Evolutionary Past
ScienceDaily (May 31, 2009) —
This is all very interesting but the assumption that human language evolved by natural selection, or the action of a single ‘lucky’ gene mutation, is almost certainly false.
Mice carrying a “humanized version” of a gene believed to influence speech and language may not actually talk, but they nonetheless do have a lot to say about our evolutionary past, according to a report in the May 29th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.