how did we develop language if we couldnt talk in the first place? what, were the first humans born with it "stored" in thier brains somewhere?
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how did language start?
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Fen, you're inane drivel about your girlfriend (boo hoo, she's leaving you, grow up!) and love being God (what the hell?) and men becoming women, or women becoming extinct or whatever the hell that was makes you my vote for "stupidest poster currently on sciforums".
Actually, you've got to be one of our stupidest posters ever. Don't insult your betters.
Now, as for the question:
It is my understanding that we started off with grunts and barks and whatnot. As we evolved, these became more and more complex, and now we have language.
Here's some very technical stuff:
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/indexb.htm
Actually, you've got to be one of our stupidest posters ever. Don't insult your betters.
Now, as for the question:
It is my understanding that we started off with grunts and barks and whatnot. As we evolved, these became more and more complex, and now we have language.
Here's some very technical stuff:
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/indexb.htm
Our nearest primate relatives, Chimpanzees and Bonos have a simple language. With training they can learn around 50-200 words, mostly in sign language because they dont have the capacity for modulating complex sounds.
Right, Lykan, language must have evolved because there was a need for it. According to present theory, the primates that ended up as us were living in the forests of eastern Africa some 6 million years ago, and they were probably living more or less like chimps are to-day. But at that time, the Great Rift Valley was being formed, and as it broadened, a new habitat was created, namely more savanna-like areas.
Apparantly some of those primates started exploiting this habitat, hunting systematically for food (chimpanzees are known to hunt occasionally). But for a slow primate with small teeth and no claws to hunt effectively on the savanna, cooperation and weapons are needed. This is believed to have provided a strong selectional pressure towards increased intelligence and, probably, language.
I think that once intelligence had developed to a certain level, it became self-reinforcing; it gave the adaptive pre-hominids the ability to expand further into new habitats, and this in turn favored more intelligence, etc. -- until we reached our present, vastly advanced level, where we can use incredibly complex technology for idle chatting and bickering, heheheh.
Hans
Right, Lykan, language must have evolved because there was a need for it. According to present theory, the primates that ended up as us were living in the forests of eastern Africa some 6 million years ago, and they were probably living more or less like chimps are to-day. But at that time, the Great Rift Valley was being formed, and as it broadened, a new habitat was created, namely more savanna-like areas.
Apparantly some of those primates started exploiting this habitat, hunting systematically for food (chimpanzees are known to hunt occasionally). But for a slow primate with small teeth and no claws to hunt effectively on the savanna, cooperation and weapons are needed. This is believed to have provided a strong selectional pressure towards increased intelligence and, probably, language.
I think that once intelligence had developed to a certain level, it became self-reinforcing; it gave the adaptive pre-hominids the ability to expand further into new habitats, and this in turn favored more intelligence, etc. -- until we reached our present, vastly advanced level, where we can use incredibly complex technology for idle chatting and bickering, heheheh.
Hans
yo asses kids learn how to speach becasue they have teachers like their parents but how could someone learn howw to speach if they didnt have teacher ???
hahaha lesion42 is now a teacher yes!!!!!
ooooo haha thanks Xev
Don H, your avatar rules.
Thinking about where speech came from is like tracing the lines of complex thought. I Cannot believe we 'taught' ouselves either, we came with the equipment and just slowly got used to it. Maybe we're still getting used to it.
Wow....thats deep Sublime baby....what did you have for breakfast?
Thinking about where speech came from is like tracing the lines of complex thought. I Cannot believe we 'taught' ouselves either, we came with the equipment and just slowly got used to it. Maybe we're still getting used to it.
Wow....thats deep Sublime baby....what did you have for breakfast?