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

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

 


 
 

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