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Elizabeth Atkinson

joined in Jul 8, 2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA.

Atkinson has 1 break published.

Overturning the hypothesis for how humans evolved language

Few traits are as uniquely human as complex spoken language. Language, therefore, has interested evolutionary biologists and neuroscientists seeking to understand what makes us, and in particular our brains, distinct from other animals. The first major genetic break in deciphering the underlying biological architecture of... click to read more

Elizabeth Atkinson | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

brain

language

population genetics

Reading time 4 min

published on Jul 8, 2019

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