Uner Tan syndrome, Unertan syndrome or UTS is a syndrome proposed by the Turkish evolutionary biologist Üner Tan. Persons affected by this syndrome walk with a quadrupedal locomotion and are afflicted with primitive speech and severe mental retardation. Tan postulated that this is an example of "backward evolution". The proposed syndrome was featured in the 2006 BBC2 documentary The Family That Walks On All Fours.
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