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An article that recently appeared in Current Biology reports that Neanderthals shared with us the gene FOXP2 — the only gene known to be involved in the development of normal linguistic competence. This suggests that, contrary to previous assumptions, Neanderthals might have had a language like we do. (A couple of quick summaries are here and here.)
