Origin of speech
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The origin of speech in Homo sapiens is a widely debated and controversial topic. The problems relate to our species' unprecedented use of the tongue, lips and vocal organs as instruments of communication. Other animals vocalise, but in their case, the tongue is not used to modulate sounds. A satisfactory Darwinian theory should explain not only why humans began doing this, but equally why no comparable development seems to have occurred in any other species.
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See also
- Animal communication
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Evolutionary linguistics
- Essay on the Origin of Languages
- Human evolution
- Language acquisition
- Linguistic anthropology
- Linguistic universals
- Neurobiological origins of language
- Origins of society
- Origin of language
- Physical anthropology
- Proto-language
- Proto-Human language
- Recent African origin of modern humans
- Signalling theory
- Social evolution
- Sociocultural evolution
- Symbolic culture
- Universal grammar
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