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Species-specific calls activate homologs of Broca's and Wernicke's areas in the macaque
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Maryland, USA [Nature Neuroscience (registration required)]: Although parallel evolution within independent primate species is feasible, this article suggests the possibility that the last common ancestor of macaques and humans, which lived 25–30 million years ago, possessed key neural mechanisms that were plausible candidates for exaptation during the evolution of language.
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