Evolution: a different view (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 14, 2015, 19:05 (3480 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Firstly, your objection applies to all innovations, and the answer I have suggested is that all the cell communities cooperate to enable the innovation to function. Secondly, your assumption that our ancestors did not “speak rudimentary language” is quite extraordinary.-Perhaps you haven't noticed it but I have fully stated that McCrone describes how he thinks H. habilis and H. erectus spoke in their rudimentary language. And certainly we know that monkeys have hoots and grunts that have meaning to them. They are thoroughly described. Early hominids did the same thing, obviously. The point you refuse to accept/respect is that the very special preparations anatomically developed for future language introduced danger and the current language abilty began about 50-100,000 years ago.-> dhw And I still don't know why you think it must have hung around for (hundreds of) thousands of years doing nothing, as if our ancestors all stopped talking to one another.-I repeat, have you followed everything I have written? It hung around all those years not being used at the level it was made for in advance. That is the key to the concept. You must say it looks as if the anatomic changes were planned for in advance of our complex language.