The Moth: Making It - Erich Jarvis

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Original Program Date: June 12, 2009

ERICH JARVIS
Neurobiologist

At Duke University, neurobiologist Erich Jarvis leads a team that studies the abilities of songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds to learn new sounds and pass along a vocal repertoire into the next generation. His research in the neurobiology of vocal learning has led to the discovery of natural behaviorally regulated gene expression in the brain, social context dependent gene regulation, convergent vocal learning systems across distantly related animal groups, the FoxP2 gene in vocal learning birds, and the recent finding that vocal learning systems may have evolved out of ancient motor learning systems.

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