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Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak
archatheist writes "Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have engineered a mouse whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for a different (human) version. This is interesting because the gene is implicated in human language, and this has changed how mice squeak. 'In a region of the brain called the basal ganglia, known in people to be involved in language, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Enard says. Dr. Enard argues that putting significant human genes into mice is the only feasible way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest living relatives.' The academic paper was published in Cell."
Yes, it's all a joke. All a joke to the sociopaths who inhabit Slashdot, totally incapable of feeling the suffering of others. That would make you emotionally retarded, stuck in the emotional state of a 6 month old baby, how proud you must be!
Oh look, a sociopath whose own mother didn't love him or hold him enough when he was a baby, and confined him to a cot in a separate bedroom so he would cry himself to sleep, decides to torture innocent baby mice to subconsciously try to show the world what happened to HIM when HE was a baby:
"Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Enard says."
How 'scientific'.
This is bullshit. Fraud. A waste of money. These nutcases are wasting BILLIONS of dollars every year on this bullshit. They view ALL living creatures as mere TOYS, things to be 'played with', and have not one iota of compassion in their bodies.