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... hominids were to be expected if his theories were correct . It was manifest that apes could not talk . The earliest hominids were believed to have been closely related to the living apes ( Huxley , 1863 ) . Because evolution proceeded ...
... hominids were to be expected if his theories were correct . It was manifest that apes could not talk . The earliest hominids were believed to have been closely related to the living apes ( Huxley , 1863 ) . Because evolution proceeded ...
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... hominid evo- lution diversified and larger - brained hominids appeared in the Homo habilis / Homo erectus lineage , the selective advantages of lin- guistic ability would have increased . The final crucial stage in the evolution of ...
... hominid evo- lution diversified and larger - brained hominids appeared in the Homo habilis / Homo erectus lineage , the selective advantages of lin- guistic ability would have increased . The final crucial stage in the evolution of ...
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... hominids like La Chapelle - aux - Saints as being significantly different from modern man ( Brace , 1964 ; Brose and ... Hominids who could have produced human speech would have to be classi- fied with hominids who could not have ...
... hominids like La Chapelle - aux - Saints as being significantly different from modern man ( Brace , 1964 ; Brose and ... Hominids who could have produced human speech would have to be classi- fied with hominids who could not have ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Cognitive and Communicative Factors Underlying Language | 5 |
Darwin and Negus | 21 |
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