Nothing to say (IMAGE: Manfred Rutz/Rex Features)From New Scientist:
A brain region critical to speech and language ballooned after humans split from chimpanzees, a new study finds.
Named after French physician, Pierre Paul Broca, who identified the region in two brain-damaged patients incapable of uttering more than a few words, Broca's area usually occupies a much larger portion of the left half of the human brain than the right.
Because right-handed humans also tend to process language in their left halves – lefties' brain are flip-flopped – some researchers think that lop-sidedness in Broca's area may help explain why humans alone developed language.
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