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Talking Ancestors

Apparently, there’s a lot of debate in the anthropological community regarding whether or not homo erectus could speak. Here’s a page with a bunch of interesting articles that address this question. I’ve only read the first article, but I found it very interesting. It suggests that homo erectus would not have been able to speak in a modern sense, but was probably developing an increasingly elaborate communication system.

posted at 19:41 on Thu, 22 Jun, 2006 | path: /living



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