Still Waters Posted July 9, 2013 #1 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are the implications for understanding present-day linguistic diversity? http://phys.org/news...ern-humans.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Voodoo Posted July 11, 2013 #2 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Origins of modern language are ten times older than thought and could date back half a million years, according to Dutch researchers It contradicts the popular idea that our modern language began with a sudden emergence of modernity presumably due to one or a few genetic mutations that gave rise to language The scientists claim that far from being slow brutes, Neanderthals' cognitive capacities and culture were comparable to ours http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2359301/Neanderthals-talked-like-half-million-years-ago-shaped-language-speak-today.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen of Annoy Posted July 11, 2013 #3 Share Posted July 11, 2013 I knew it. Nothing scientific or sane to say, just that I knew it. I always thought (for no rational reason) the Neanderthals are more important and were more than it was suggested, until recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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