Follow the Evolutionary Roots of Interspecies Language

ANIMAL LANGUAGE
Shows The Evolution of Language in Humans

STARTING WITH FISH
AND WORKING IT'S WAY THROUGH TIME UNTIL HUMANS USE IT.

#Interspecies #Animal Language #Evolution #why children sing

The Language of Fish , Whales Have Dialects Just Like Humans, Dolphins, Elephants, Wolves, Mice, Birds, Bees, Apes, Bonobo, Gorilla, Monkey and Chimp and Humans. The collective "hooting" patterns that resemble "duetting" and "chorusing" on the vocal behaviors of their shared primate ancestors of humans, and what those might say about the evolution of music, language , and religion. Some species like bees use dance , while other species scream, bark, roar, click, whistle, sing, and gesture.

Baboon Study Reveals Early Evolution of Language https://archive.is/h15lW
Baboons use over 2000 distinct sounds. Scientists have discovered that baboons can produce five distinct vowel sounds, which are strikingly similar to our own human vowel sounds. The scientists recorded over 2,000 distinct calls, grunts and barks and discovered that the sounds that baboons make are very similar to our human vowel sounds. This discovery suggests that language skills actually evolved tens of millions of years earlier than previously thought. It is now thought that our pre-human ancestors could have been using meaningful language over 25 million years ago.
Tongue anatomy is the same as humans Dr Louis-Jean Boë said: “Examining the vocalisations through acoustic analyses, tongue anatomy and modelling of acoustic potential, we found that baboons produce sounds sharing the f1/f2 formant [sound frequencies] structure of the human vowels.” This suggests that our pre-human ancestors would probably have developed the physical capacity for language before they split off from the ancestors of baboons 25 million years ago.

Humans evolved to do all of this.

Evolutionary Science Show the Roots of Language

Researchers have found that monkeys combine calls to make them meaningful in the same way that humans do .
The researchers recorded the alarm calls of putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria and noticed them combining noises to apparently convey different meanings. 2008 Large Repertoire - The latest research provides evidence that the various calls may contain at least three types of information - the event witnessed, the caller's identity, and whether he intends to travel, all of which were recognised by other monkeys.

Cotton-top tamarin Monkeys 'grasp basic grammar' 2004
Cotton-top tamarins Monkeys can distinguish different sound-patterns in time which shows they recognise 'bad grammar'. 2009
From The Mouths Of Apes, Babble Hints At Origins of Human Speech . An orangutan named Tilda is providing scientists with fresh evidence that even early human ancestors had the ability to make speechlike vocalizations.

GESTURE

Explore the underwater origins of vocal communication, as well as whether fish were the first animals to evolve some common non-vocal gestures

Humans still Gesture all the time , the nongramatical expressive movements we all make [shrugging shoulders, waving good-bye, brandishing a fist. Hands are the beginnings of language .

2012 Fascinating Facial Signals / Gestures

Out of the Mouths of Primates, Facial Mechanics of Human Speech May Have Evolved. "This research gives us insight into methods of exploring the neural basis of not only facial expression production but also its evolution and relationship to speech". X-ray movies to film adult rhesus macaques as they smacked their lips or as they chewed food. The researchers observed that during lip smacking, internal structures such as the tongue and hyoid, which houses the larynx, move in pace with the lips with a rhythm of 5 hertz -- again, just as in human speech. Also similar to humans, chewing produced a slow, tightly coordinated movement of these components in macaques, while lip smacking resulted in faster, loosely coordinated movement. Lip smacking undergoes the same developmental trajectory from infancy to adulthood in rhesus macaques that speech-related mouth movement does in humans. Infant macaques smacked their lips slowly and with an inconsistent rhythm, similar to the documented pace of babbling in human infants. By adulthood, however, lip smacking has a distinct rhythm and a faster pace averaging 5 hertz, or cycles per second -- the same as adult humans producing speech.
Monkey Lip Smacks Provide New Insights Into the Evolution of Human Speech . New research published in Current Biology by W. Tecumseh Fitch, Head of the Department of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, supports the idea that human speech evolved less from vocalizations than from communicative facial gestures. Although superficially lip-smacking appears to involve simply rapid opening and closing of the lips, the x-ray movies show that lip-smacking is actually a complex behaviour, requiring rapid, coordinated movements of the lips, jaw, tongue and the hyoid bone (which provides the supporting skeleton for the larynx and tongue). Furthermore these movements occur at a rate of about 5 cycles per second, the same as speech, and are much faster than chewing movements (about 2.5 cycles per second). Thus, although lip smacking superficially resembles "fake chewing," it is in fact very different, and more like speech.
Barking Dogs Depending on the context, a dog's barks can vary in timing, pitch, and amplitude. How well do people understand what dogs are saying? Researchers played a collection of barks to a group of people. Regardless of whether they owned a dog or not, most people could tell from a bark whether a dog was alone or being approached by a stranger, playing or being aggressive.

CLICK LANGUAGES

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CLICKS: Ancient Roots for an African Language?
'First language may have used clicks' October 2001
http://www.ananova.com/
Two scientists say a genetic study suggests the world's first language may have used clicks. Still found in parts of Africa, Click Languages rely on distinctive clicking sounds made by the tongue to form words. The US researchers say their study shows existing click speakers are genetically diverse, meaning their languages may be older than others. Click languages are still found in the Hadza tribe of Tanzania and the San groups of Botswana and Namibia.

Khoisan click language