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Slowly at first, possibly beginning with simple sounds made by our ancestors Homo heidelbergenis, and then increasingly rapidly until there were thousands of languages spoken around the planet. But this has been fiercely debated and much is still not understood.
Feb 3, 2016 · How humans evolved language, and who said what first. We are the only living ape with complex language, but why? What were the first words, and who spoke them? And did Neanderthals converse too?
- Mark Pagel
Apr 2, 2015 · At some point, probably 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, humans began talking to one another in a uniquely complex form. It is easy to imagine this epochal change as cavemen grunting, or hunter-gatherers mumbling and pointing. But in a new paper, an MIT linguist contends that human language likely developed quite rapidly into a sophisticated system ...
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.
Sep 1, 2017 · Today, in mainstream linguistics, language evolution no longer denotes the course of linguistic features morphing into alternatives with greater selective advantages, but the nebulous set of phylogenetic events that made us loquens.
- Bernard H. Bichakjian
- 2017
Part II, which details the biology of language evolution including anatomy, genetics, and neurology, offers various views of the physical components of a language faculty. Part III is about the prehistory of language, and in particular askes: When and why did language evolve?
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Jul 24, 2017 · The archaeological record reveals that about 40,000 years ago there was a flowering of art and other cultural artefacts at modern human sites, leading some archaeologists to suggest that a late genetic change in our lineage gave rise to language at this later time [9].
