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Yannick Becker

@ybecker.bsky.social

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Brain 🧠 evolution 🐒 & language 🙊 | sub-group evolution at rg Cognitive Neurogenetics (@Sofie Valk)@MPI CBS, Germany | incoming Atip-avenir group leader @CRNL, France | Klaus Tschira & GSO Boost Fund Fellow yannickbecker.weebly.com

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #LanguageEvolution #Chimpanzees 1/n 🧵👇

Portrait of the chimpanzee “Wazak” (©James Mollison) & Nerve fibres in the chimpanzee brain (©MPI CBS)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59254-8

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Exciting! @evfedorenko.bsky.social and coll. @natureportfolio.bsky.social (NatRevNeurosci)'s piece functionally separated a core lang network from a percept.-motor network (+others); and asked for an evo perspective! Here we go: s.gwdg.de/WUPS8h (together with A.D. Friederici)

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