Pre-History

Chromosome 13 Pre-History

Marie

The thirteenth chromosome is a gene that links genetics with linguistics or language. Humans may not have written down history of the past, but they do have our genes. This gene even helps connect the many different kinds of languages to just a couple of origional ones or maybe even just one. This gene helps us see the expansions and migrations of people. It even helps show the same roots that many languages share. Linguistics-the science of language Genes, in other words, support evidence from linguistics that expansions and migrations of people with novel technological skills have played a great part in human evolution.(189) The fact that because of chromosome one I can drink milk, just blew my mind away. I always thought that people who were lactose intolerant had a defect or something. But No! I'm actually the mutation. I had always just assumed that everyone could drink milk. But some people in Africa just because of their gene history can't even digest milk.