AK's Rambling Thoughts: FoxP2: Evolving Human Intelligence

AK's Rambling Thoughts: FoxP2: Evolving Human Intelligence: "The FoxP2 protein is an enzyme that, at least, participates in the complex dance that is gene activation. Defective mutant alleles of this gene in humans cause cause a 'severe disorder, involving profound deficits in the control of complex coordinated face and mouth movements, resulting in disrupted speech ([ref's]).'11 The combination of this with the fact that humans have a recent improvement in this gene8 is what makes it so interesting."