Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA26367 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 29 May 2000 10:39:50 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D310174587E@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Jabbering ! Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:37:40 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
'New Scientist' magazine this week reports the findings of a geneticist who
believes he may have found a key gene in distinguishing modern humans
language skills from earlier humans (called PCDX, or something like that).
I don't understand the complexities of it, but it's got something to do
apparently with the position of this gene on the Y chromosome, and its
position having inverted quite recently in human evolution.
As a friend of mine once said of all those people who go on about us sharing
98% of our genes with apes said, it's the 2% difference that matters.
Vincent
> ----------
> From: Kenneth Van Oost
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 10:25 am
> To: memetics
> Subject: Jabbering !
>
>
> << Scientists of the University of Texas ascertained the fact that
> babies
> all over the world are drivelling the same language, either they were born
> in
> Africa or in Lapland.
> The ' words ' begin always with a consonant and end up with a vowel, like
> ta-ta or na-na.
>
> It seems that babies don' t imitate the sounds which their parents
> reproduce.
> This brings the scientists closer to the theory that all languages
> originate
> out of one primeval language. >>
>
> Kenneth,
>
> (I am, because we are)
>
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