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... modern ; the distance between the foramen magnum and hard palate is short ... Homo sapiens . The reconstructed Broken Hill supralaryngeal is intermediate ... modern Homo sapiens . When it is modeled it can produce acoustic ...
... modern ; the distance between the foramen magnum and hard palate is short ... Homo sapiens . The reconstructed Broken Hill supralaryngeal is intermediate ... modern Homo sapiens . When it is modeled it can produce acoustic ...
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... modern humans they must have employed language . Even if we wanted to state that language is the defining characteristic of Homo sapiens we would have to admit the possibility of forms of language other than those characteristic of modern ...
... modern humans they must have employed language . Even if we wanted to state that language is the defining characteristic of Homo sapiens we would have to admit the possibility of forms of language other than those characteristic of modern ...
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... human lan- guage . The probable absence of speech encoding equivalent to that of modern Homo sapiens and the presence of a highly developed culture both point to the presence of a different language in Nean- dertal culture . Conversely ...
... human lan- guage . The probable absence of speech encoding equivalent to that of modern Homo sapiens and the presence of a highly developed culture both point to the presence of a different language in Nean- dertal culture . Conversely ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Cognitive and Communicative Factors Underlying Language | 5 |
Darwin and Negus | 21 |
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