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And indeed, that afternoon in Georgetown, Jarvis announces that a massive international effort to sequence the genomes of forty-eight species of birds has identified a set of more than fifty genes that flick on and off in the brains of both humans and songbirds in regions involved in imitating sounds, speaking, and singing. This difference in activity doesn’t occur in birds that aren’t vocal learners (such as doves and quail) or in primates that don’t speak.
The Genius of Birds
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