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> animals were able to make sounds with vocal cords well before (like 100 million years before) Um, no. Even between chimps and ourselves lies a vast gulf of u
by sporkologist 10y ago
> animals were able to make sounds with vocal cords well before (like 100 million years before)
Um, no. Even between chimps and ourselves lies a vast gulf of unpronounceability, just due to vocal chord physics. Yet more interesting is the mapping between formants and meaning in linguistics.
- ClayFerguson 10y agoLots of primate species have died off. Since even humans and chimps are 98% identical there is plenty of reason to believe other primates had vocal cords and even language. The only way you can argue against this is to say that you know the 2% difference between man and chimp contains instructions for vocal cords that could never have appeared in the past which is obviously a wild guess on your part. Neither one of us knows so your "um, no" snarkyness is nothing but that. snarkyness.