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Our ability to speak is led down to our genes, a study finds.

Is there a grammar/language gene? This is an interesting question that linguistics finally started to tap into. While the correlation between our genes and our physical traits such as height, skin, eye color, etc. is very clearly undeniable and easy to understand, the correlation between genes and language is a little less obvious and disturbing. […]

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We store 1.5 megabytes of information to master our native language, study finds.

Learning a language is a remarkable feat. The amount of cognitive effort it takes for a newborn to learn a language is tremendous. We often don’t realize this because children do it seemingly effortlessly and rapidly. But it’s not what it looks like. New research shows that language acquisition requires an enormous amount of cognitive

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The Weirdest and Rarest Causes of Death You Will Ever See. 

Humans are some of the most complex beings that roams this planet. To define human beings we’d have to say that they are complex hierarchical systems consisting of a number of hierarchical levels of anatomical organization such as molecules, sub-cellular entities, cells, tissues, organs, apparatuses, and organism that interrelate differently with each other to form

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