Human evolution; our complex speech mechanism (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, May 02, 2020, 10:23 (1664 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "Finding an AF-like pathway in macaques may not even represent their earliest development, notes Petkov, who points out, "there may be more brain 'fossils' yet to be discovered with even earlier evolutionary origins. Or it may be discovered that the origin of this pathway traces back even further if another brain "fossil" is found.'"

DAVID: Tracts in the brain have to begin development somewhere in time as evolution progressed to produce humans and their ability to have speech and language. As always I view this a God's preplanning for the future.

I agree totally with your first sentence, because I believe in common descent. What mystifies me is that your now totally hands-on God apparently only wanted to directly design H. sapiens, but first he had to directly design the arcuate fasciculus 20-25million years ago, and then all the other bits and pieces over the next umpteen millions of years just to produce our voices. Fortunately, you’ve given us your answer to the mystery under “David’s Theory of Evolution”.