"the chances of two individuals getting the same chance mutation, at exactly the same time, is even less credible. And so, according to the theory of the langua

"the chances of two individuals getting the same chance mutation, at exactly the same time, is even less credible. And so, according to the theory of the language instinct, the world’s first language-equipped human presumably had no one to talk to." This is why I believe that if there are any genetic encodings for language (whether either specific to language alone or non-specific but used also by language, if you get my drift) they must have occurred with twins who were then able to communicate more effectively with each other relative to their peers and so they survived and so did their offspring and their genes spread throughout the gene pool. I know it's a wacky idea but it gets around the rebuttal of "presumably had no one to talk to." And sure, it's an unlikely event but we're talking hundreds of thousands of years here, thousands of generations, billions of people.