New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens ...

This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world.

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