By Chris Gayomali
Studies have long suggest that the average charwoman speaks about 20,000 words a day . The average man , on the other mitt , hovers closer to 7000 . That have in mind in one class , a Chatty Cathy could wind up speaking 4.7 million more words than a member of the quieter sex , or the jolting equivalent of narratingWar and Peacein its entirety … eight time . The ground for this has long been unclear to scientist , and it ’s why a team of researcher at the University of Maryland sought to find a biologic underpinning for why women tend to have a instinctive giving for chitchat . Their question : What makes women more talkative than men ?
How it was tested
A team of neuroscientists and psychologists , led by Margaret McCarthy , studied rats to identifya protein called Foxp2 , which was found to be associated with vocalization . manly stinkpot , for example , tend to have more of this protein in their brain than females , and when scientist reduced the protein ’s rate of output , the baby males were far less squeaky ( and were given less attention from their mothers ) . The next step was to see if the same was true for humans . investigator test 10 kid between the age of three and five to see what their Foxp2 protein levels were .
The result
compare to untested boys , the girls had 30 percent more of the Foxp2 protein in a " mind area cay to nomenclature in humans,“saysThe Telegraph . A correlation seems clear . Among skunk , male are more talkative and have more of this protein . Among humans , girls are more talkative and have more of this protein in key language areas of the wit .
What the experts say
" Based on our observations , we call for higher levels of Foxp2 in girls and higher level of Foxp2 in male rats is an reading that Foxp2 protein floor are associated with the more communicative sex,“said McCarthy . Of of course , that does n’t mean womanhood arealwaysmore talky than men . " We ca n’t say that this is the end - all - be - all logical thinking , " research worker Mike BowerstoldToday , " but it is one of the first avenues with which we can start to explore why women run to be more verbal than men . "
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