"Stephen Harris"  wrote in message
news:bcpvsn$1v17$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> I have been reading about genes such as FOXp2 which appear to be part of a
> genetic system that generates language. If there is a gene or several
> involved in
> enabling language, then that would seem to argue against just social
> intelligence since

The genetic mutation (or few mutations) that lately launched human languages
are the same "ambi-advantagously adaptive" one(s) that make ours the by far
most AEVASIVE of all animal species.

P
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