msnbc.msn.com — Ham and cheese contain essential amino acids, but certain strands of these amino acids could be the key to speech in humans. Mice given the gene containing these show signs of changes in brain circuitry...
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tattertechMay 29, 2009
I think so, Brain, but this time, you put the trousers on the chimp.
bow39May 29, 2009
The secret of Human speech evolution rest on the study of a f**king MOUSE [the mouse is really similar to HUMANS] 5 years ago it was the PIG 25 years ago it was the monkey i don't know who's worse us believing this crap or them justifying toying with a mouse or anything els that moves.
upstream1May 29, 2009
human speech was created, in um, creation,in 7 days, by God not athiest socialist liberal amino acids,um,dinosaurs are a conspiracy....
Closed AccountMay 29, 2009
Even if we could put this gene into animals, most of them wouldn't be able to reproduce human sounds due to their vocal cords and mouth shape. I'm not sure if monkeys could talk, but a lot of birds could.
nitsujMay 29, 2009
No, it wouldn't have been what we now call a mouse 90 million years ago. 90 million years ago is when they diverged from the ancestral mammalian line with creatures that would become us (and others mammals).The time involved is calculated using the molecular clock:<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_clock">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_clock</a>Really, instead of making a sarcastic comment which means you think these scientists are dishonest or making stuff up, you'd have better spent your time researching how they arrive at their conclusions.
triticumMay 30, 2009
Chimp think speak good. Chimp know hand sign speak. Chimp want bone throat speak.
easternwindJun 16, 2009
Pretty interesting - there was a gorilla that knew sign language and the meaning of death.