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Researchers in the USA have that a protein in the brain might why women are more talkative than men - three times more chatty, in fact. The research team at the University of Maryland a "language protein" that by the name of Foxp2 is a lot more prevalent in women's brains. The protein was first a decade ago and was to be a key neurological component of speech. The scientists it is a lot more abundant in girls than boys. They the protein is the reason why girls earlier and more quickly than boys. It also claims that women speak about 20,000 words a day, compared to just 7,000 words for the average man.

Research team leader professor Margaret McCarthy said: "This study is one of the first to a sex difference in the expression of a language-associated protein in humans or animals." She : "The findings the possibility that sex differences in brain and behaviour are more [widespread], and earlier than previously []." Other scientists have said there is more than one protein responsible for speech and that the research is in its infancy. Readers of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper some interesting insights into the chattiness of women. One said women have to more because, "men are not good listeners and women must themselves to be ".

 


 
 

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