Are humans an "uplifted" species?

I'm not one to jump to conclusions, but this new data really makes it look like there was some "intervention" in our past.

"Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland attribute the split of humanity from apes to the gene miR-941. They say that the gene played an integral role in human development and contributed to humans' ability to use tools and learn languages.

Most of the time, when one species diverges from another, that difference occurs because of gene mutations, duplications, or deletions. However, this gene is believed to have emerged, fully functional, from "junk DNA" in a breathtakingly short amount of evolutionary time."

[link to www.medicaldaily.com]