Hey folks, I’ve got a feature article in this week’s New Scientist, which is my second for the magazine. The article describes the story of FOXP2, the “language gene” that’s not really a ...

Scientists discover how mutations in a language gene produce speech deficits Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons' ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new ...

Campbell et al. suggest that although FOXP2 is integrally involved in brain pathways essential for learned vocal communication, it’s not limited to these pathways.

FOXP2 is inextricably tied to the region in other species too – if you knock out the gene in the basal ganglia of young finches, they can’t accurately learn the songs of their tutors.

TALKING EVOLUTION A gene called FOXP2 was probably important for the evolution of language, but the language gene didn’t provide humans an evolutionary advantage as a species, new research suggests.

A paper to be published in Nature (W. Enard et al., "Molecular Evolution of FOXP2, a Gene Involved in Speech and Language") compares the human version of the FOXP2 gene with that of other mammals.

The Foxp2 gene plays an essential role in the development of social communication, according to a study led by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The association between Foxp2 and ...

Girls speak earlier -- and now we know why A protein called Foxp2 has been shown to play a critical role in speech and language development in rats -- and humans, too. featurepics.com ...

In 2001 Fisher and his colleagues found that the gene at the root of the family’s trouble is FOXP2, located on chromosome 7. The gene makes a protein that binds to DNA, switching other genes on ...