Hi Folks
The first "language gene" has been found according to
http://www.nature.com/nsu/011004/011004-16.html
"Researchers today unveil the single gene that, when it goes wrong,
causes this speech breakdown. The gene - the first to be definitively
linked to language - switches others on and off, and so could lead
the way through a genetic network of language learning and use.
It's an unbelievably complex system, and we've got one tiny glimpse
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig
Finding one gene is like finding one part of a car. It looks useful,
as though it's part of a larger mechanism. But we don't know what it
does, what other parts it interacts with, or what the whole vehicle
looks like. "It's an unbelievably complex system, and we've got one
tiny glimpse," says Michael Tomasello, a psychologist at the Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany."
Regards
John