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<td>Re: [evol-psych] Language Gene is Traced to Emergence of Humans</td>
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<td>Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:09:54 -0700</td>
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<td>Stan Franklin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:franklin@memphis.edu"><franklin@memphis.edu></a></td>
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<pre>Larry Trask wrote:
> Richard Klein is an eminent palaeoanthropologist. Like some other
> anthropologists and archaeologists, he has been arguing for years that the
> archaeological record shows a sudden explosive change in human behaviour
> around 50,000 years ago, and that the only reasonable explanation for this
> explosion is the sudden emergence of full-blown language.
>
> But I gather that not all specialists are equally convinced that the change
> in behaviour was quite so dramatic as suggested. Moreover, even if it was,
> not everyone believes that the first appearance of language is the only
> possible explanation.
Bellow is the reference to the work establishing that the advent of symbolic
behavior that marks modern humans occurred earlier, gradually, and over a
much longer period of time. It may well be that truly symbolic language
evolved over much the same time period. I suspect that vocal, indexical
signs were commonly used much, much earlier for communication by Homo
Erectus.
McBrearty, S., and A. S. Brooks. 2000. The revolution that wasn't:a new
interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior. Journal of Human
Evolution 39:453-563.
Stan
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