Ladies, the next time the man in your life complains you talk too much, silence him with science.
Tell him – at length, of course – it is all because of the Foxp2 protein.
It has been claimed previously that women speak about 20,000 words a day – some 13,000 more than the average man.
But now scientists have found the key to explaining why women are the more talkative sex.
A study just published suggests that higher levels of the protein are found in the female brain.
US researchers found that those with more Foxp2, known as the ‘language protein’, in their brains were the chattier.
This showed the girls to have 30 per cent more of the Foxp2 protein than the boys, in a brain area key to language in humans.
Studies have shown that the female love of chit-chat begins at a young age. Girls learn to speak earlier and more quickly than boys. They produce their first words and sentences earlier, have larger vocabularies and use a greater variety of sentence types than boys of the same age.
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