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Primate auditory prototype in the evolution of the arcuate fasciculus

Balezeau, Fabien; Wilson, Benjamin; Gallardo, Guillermo; Dick, Fred; Hopkins, William; Anwander, Alfred; Friederici, Angela D.; Griffiths, Timothy D.; Petkov, Christopher I.

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April 20, 2020

10.1038/s41593-020-0623-9

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Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

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Balezeau et al. find a primate homolog of the human language pathway within the auditory system of monkeys and apes. This discovery pushes back the human language pathway’s origin by about 20 million years and illuminates its remarkable evolutionary transformation.