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Human speech+language evolution is best explained by our hominoid descent & our waterside evolution.
In short, we see (at least) 4 preadaptions:
- hominoid loud territorial calls (laryngeal descent cf. apes, incl. hylobatid songs),
- voluntary breathing (an adaptation for shallow-diving, probably mostly for shellfish, probably early-Pleistocene),
- fine oral movements (lips, tongue, throat, incl. hyoidal descent, for sucking shellfish etc.),
- huge brain (cf. DHA etc. in seafoods, cf. dolphins).
My publications on these subjects:
1986 E Morgan & M Verhaegen New Scientist 1498:62-63 “In the beginning was the water”
1987 Hum Evol 2:381 “Speech origins”
1988 Specul Sci Technol 11:165-171 “Aquatic ape theory and speech origins: a hypothesis”
1992 Language Origins Society Forum 15:17-18 “KNM-ER 1470 and KNM-ER 1805 endocasts”
1995 Med Hypoth 44:409-413 “Aquatic ape theory, speech origins, and brain differences with apes and monkeys”
1995 ReVision 18:34-38 “ Aquatic ape theory, the brain cortex, and language origins”
1997 Hadewijch Antwerp 220 pp “In den Beginne was het Water – Nieuwste Inzichten in de Evolutie van de Mens”
1999 M Verhaegen & S Munro Mother Tongue V:161-168 “Bipeds, tools and speech”
2000 M Verhaegen & S Munro p.236-240“The origins of phonetic abilities: a study of the comparative data with reference to the aquatic theory” in J-L Dessalles, L Ghadakpour eds 2000 "The Evolution of Language" Ecole Nat Sup Télécommunications Paris
proceedings“The origins of phonetic abilities: a study of the comparative data with reference to the aquatic theory”
2004 M Verhaegen & S Munro Hum Evol 19:53-70 “Possible preadaptations to speech – a preliminary comparative approach”
2011 M Vaneechoutte, S Munro & M Verhaegen “Seafood, diving, song and speech” p.181-9 in M Vaneechoutte cs eds 2011 ebook Bentham Sci Publ Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years after Alister Hardy: Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution"
2022 Eburon Utrecht NL 325 pp “De Evolutie van de Mens - waarom wij rechtop lopen en kunnen spreken”
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