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Thanks to a new genome-sequencing method, scientists better understand the genes that may control how parrots learn to imitate human speech and other sounds.

Duke University neurobiologist Erich Jarvis is interested in the sequences that regulate parrots’ imitation abilities because they could give neuroscientists information about the gene regions that control speech development in humans.

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