[language] [Fwd: Re: [evol-psych] Language Gene is Traced to Emergence of Humans]

[H.M. Hubey]

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Subject: Re: [evol-psych] Language Gene is Traced to Emergence of Humans
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:09:54 -0700
From: Stan Franklin <franklin at memphis.edu>
To: evolutionary-psychology at yahoogroups.com



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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