Tuesday, June 11, 2013

On the origins of language

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3662928.stm

Read the above, and contemplate.  What the story shows is a way of learning within a group.  Certainly not a phenomenon of an individual.  Also, play dumb charades for a while, and watch the efficiency with which you communicate go up.  That this tells us something about the evolutionary roots of language, I think not.