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Evidence from seemingly unrelated disciplines suggests that the specialized anatomy and neural mechanisms that confer fully human speech, language, and cognitive ability reached their present state sometime between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Feb 3, 2016 · To those of us who study human evolution, this incredible universality suggests that our species has had language right from when Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200,000 and...
- Mark Pagel
Jul 24, 2017 · No one knows for sure when language evolved, but fossil and genetic data suggest that humanity can probably trace its ancestry back to populations of anatomically modern Homo sapiens (people who would have looked like you and me) who lived around 150,000 to 200,000 years ago in eastern or perhaps southern Africa [4, 5, 6].
- Mark Pagel
- m.pagel@reading.ac.uk
- 2017
The first perspective that language evolved from the calls of human ancestors seems logical because both humans and animals make sounds or cries. One evolutionary reason to refute this is that, anatomically, the centre that controls calls in monkeys and other animals is located in a completely different part of the brain than in humans.
Apr 30, 2020 · The discovery pushes back the evolutionary origin of the human language pathway by at least 20 million years. Previously, a precursor pathway was thought by many scientists to have emerged more recently, about 5 million years ago, with a common ancestor to apes and humans.
Mar 1, 2013 · 1. Was language given to humans by God or did it emerge by Darwinian evolution? 2. From a phylogenetic perspective, did language emerge abruptly or gradually?
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Oct 27, 2023 · The laryngeal descent theory (LDT) posits that language became possible only after anatomically modern Homo sapiens evolved around 200,000 years to 300,000 years ago. In H. sapiens, the larynx is lower in the throat than in our pre-H. sapiens ancestors or in modern non-human primates.
