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Neanderthals may have shared key DNA for complex language, reshaping when human speech began
- April 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have an outsized impact on humans' language abilities and that these sequences evolved before humans and Neanderthals diverged.
Originally published at Phys.org