From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Optional Metatypes, part 3: Sasquatch
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 1997 21:02:23 -0700

> Well, medically that same condition can arise in humans... that is a
> person can hear and understand spoken speach perfectly fine, but are
> almost completely unable to speak coherently. themselves. It had to do
> with the connections between the parts of the brain for speech and
> comprehension/cognitive activity (or something... the "Mind, Brain, and
> Behavior" class that I took was two quarters ago.)

Aphasia (of which there are two kinds, both of which I forget the names
to. One allows you to understand speech but not produce words sensibly,
and the other is more or less vice versa.) Not exactly an evolutionary
advantage for a species to develop, is it?