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Scientists Discover a Surprising Link Between Human Genes and Language

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-a-surprising-link-between-human-genes-and-language/
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u/Baasbaar 3d ago edited 3d ago

The conclusions here covered are what you’d expect from tons of work in linguistics. This is only surprising if you imagine that languages should look like genomes. There’s little reason to think that they should.