<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title></title>
</head>
<body><><><><><><><><><><><><>--This is the Language List--<><><><><><><><><><><><><><BR>
<BR>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2726.2500" name="GENERATOR">
<style></style>
<div>Scientific American</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div class="thedate1">May 27, 2003 </div>
<div class="titleArticle"><b>Chimp Study Yields Clues to Evolution of Human
Speech</b></div>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="right"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<table cellpadding="4" width="200" align="right" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="right"><img alt="chimp"
src="http://www.sciam.com/media/inline/00018313-7C84-1ED3-8E1C809EC588EF21_1.jpg"
border="0">
</div>
<div class="imageCredit" align="right">Image: COURTESY OF THE <i>PROCEEDINGS
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES</i></div>
<br>
<div class="captionText"><b></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span class="regArticletext">We humans are nothing if not talkative. Indeed,
it's one of our most salient characteristics as a species. But exactly how
we came to be so chatty is less obvious. Despite decades of research into
the subject, anthropologists are still struggling to reconstruct the chain
of events that produced our unique oral capabilities. Now the results of
a new study suggest that one part of the story they thought they had nailed
in fact needs revision.
<p>Conventional wisdom holds that the repositioning of the human larynx that
occurs during infancy--a key morphological prerequisite to speech--is particular
to our kind. But Takeshi Nishimura of Kyoto University in Japan and colleagues
have discovered that this southward migration of the larynx to a spot between
the pharynx and the lungs occurs in our speechless relative the chimpanzee,
too. The team employed magnetic resonance imaging (<i>see image</i>) to
track development in three chimps during the first two years of life. </p>
<p>Full text <a
href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00018313-7C84-1ED3-8E1C809EC588EF21">http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00018313-7C84-1ED3-8E1C809EC588EF21</a></p>
</span></div>
<br>
<tt> News in Brain and Behavioural Sciences - Issue 96 - 19th May, 2003
<br>
<a href="http://human-nature.com/nibbs/issue96.html">http://human-nature.com/nibbs/issue96.html</a>
<br>
Human Nature Review <a href="http://human-nature.com/">http://human-nature.com/</a><br>
Evolutionary Psychology <a href="http://human-nature.com/ep/">http://human-nature.com/ep/</a></tt>
<br>
<br>
<tt>Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <a
href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/">Yahoo! Terms of Service</a>.</tt>
<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="$mailwrapcol">--
Mark Hubey
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hubeyh@mail.montclair.edu">hubeyh@mail.montclair.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey">http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey</a></pre>
---<><><><><><><><><><><><>----Language----<><><><><><><><><><><><><><BR>
Copyrights/"Fair Use": http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html<BR>
The "fair use" exemption to copyright law was created to allow things<BR>
such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education <BR>
about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's<BR>
important so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express<BR>
your own works -- only the ability to express other people's. <BR>
Intent, and damage to the commercial value of the work are <BR>
important considerations. <BR>
<BR>
You are currently subscribed to language as: language@listserv.linguistlist.org<BR>
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-language-4283Y@csam-lists.montclair.edu
</BODY>
</html>