Interesting - but isn't this exactly what the "Washo" experiments at Berkeley were showing about 35 years ago? (Washo was a chimp used in sign-language...
The fact that humans can, if need be, speak just as fluently with their hands and faces as with their voices suggests that "language" is some kind of...
I'm currently doing a study of Austronesian number systems (please try and plod on through my verbiage to understand what I'm trying to say) Our numbering...
Paul, That is a very good point: that we remain able to communicate across several delivery and receptive mediums. Language is more than simply being able to...
... I had to chuckle slightly at that comment. The reconstructed PIE forms (those with the asterisk prefixes) are derived from the later words, so it's not...
... Agreed most strongly. The problem is, however, that our biology shows us that speech *has* been selected for quite heavily, despite the apparent...
John: Discussing PIE(in connection with more "paleolithic or "neolithic" issues) is not entirely OT, so if you want to go a little further in, that's okay. I...
Paul: Don't feel bad. I started this list. And I supposedly know something about Neandertals and paleolithic people. And I didn't do so hot, either. Anne G ...
This is the most idiotic pop-palaeanthropology quiz I've seen since I last read Reader's Digest (RD is usually considerably more brain-challenging). If...
... (please ... *penkwe ... number ... reconstructions. ... number ... the ... John - Well, Grimm and Verner may have invented some nice laws that apply to...
Richard: I wouldn't call the answers idiotic. I got about half of them right, which would probably put me in the "lower australopithecine" category, or...
Hi, Anne, I think the most important point is that the answers to many of these is unknown and likely to remain so. Pine needle trays, telling stories... who...
Note, orangutans and gibbons move bipedally while on the ground. Perhaps their LCA was not only terrestrial, but bipedal (or semi- bipedal) as well. Dan ... ...
... I would certainly agree that speech as a major delivery mode for human communication was strongly selected for, but I wouldn't say as either the only or...
There is a very good analysis of this research at: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004461.html#more regards Richard ... across ... *has* ...
... ================================================= Well, jee whiz!! You mean the ONLY answer I thought I had right on that dumb test -- is also wrong TOO? ...
All: Via the Afarensis blog, I got this little gem from Seattle's own Discovery Institute(note to all: I happen to think this "institute" is a blemish on the...
... Ah, I see the genetic data was limited to Y chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA. Not good. As genetic sampling of gorillas shows, a divergence between...
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