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- How did we transition from ape-like communication to full-fledged human language? Most scientists think this happened in stages, as our ancestors evolved the adaptations needed for language. In earlier stages, human ancestors would have used a kind of protolanguage — more complex than ape communication, but lacking elements of modern language.
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Jan 13, 2015 · A new study concludes that the art of conversation may have arisen early in human evolution, because it made it easier for our ancestors to teach each other how to make stone tools—a skill that was crucial for the spectacular success of our lineage.
Apr 20, 2020 · Scientists have discovered an earlier origin to the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years. Previously, a precursor of the...
Oct 21, 2020 · Since marmosets branched off from humanity's ancestors around 40 million years ago, this crucial cognitive skill thus developed many million years before human language evolved.
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 160,000...
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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.
Apr 20, 2020 · Scientists have discovered an earlier origin to the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years. It is like finding a new fossil of a long lost ancestor. It is also exciting that there may be an older origin yet to be discovered still.
Jul 27, 2023 · Abstract. A defining property of human language is the creative use of words to express multiple meanings through word meaning extension. Such lexical creativity is manifested at different timescales, ranging from language development in children to the evolution of word meanings over history.
