Uner Tan Syndrome
Tan is best known for his proposal of the Uner Tan syndrome, a condition in which subjects walk quadrupedal gait and primitive cognition including speech and intelligence with no conscious experience. He proposed the syndrome after his discovery of the Ulas family of rural southern Turkey, five of whom have these symptoms. He also put forward the theory of "backward evolution" as a reflection of the qaudrupedal gait, which was used by our ancestors before Homo erectus. Since his study of the Ulas family, Tan has studied the Uner Tan syndrome in several other families.
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