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Neuroscientist Erich Jarvis reveals that his lab’s groundbreaking work could be moving closer to the possibility of engineering vocal learning (aka the ability to talk) in other species.

Erich Jarvis is a neuroscientist investigating the mysteries of speech and vocal learning through groundbreaking research on birdsong and brain evolution. As a professor at The Rockefeller University and head of the Jarvis Lab, he explores how complex behaviors like human language arise from brain circuits and genetic pathways. Jarvis was also profiled in NOVA Wonders: What are Animals Saying.

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