Authors argue that the anatomical ingredients for speech were present in our ancestors much earlier than 200,000 years ago. In fact, they propose that the necessary equipment"specifically, the throat shape and motor control that produce distinguishable vowels"has been around as long as 27 million years, when humans and Old World monkeys (baboons, mandrills, and the […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM on December 17, 2019