Tool Making and Language Developed Together? - 09/03/13 01:56 AM
Phys.Org:Language and tool-making skills evolved at same time, study says
A study of brain activity while making stone tools and while taking a standard language test showed that the same part of the brain was active for both tasks. This suggests that the ability to have a language would have developed at the same time as the ability to make stone tools.
When we developed the ability to have a language has been a big question for paleoanthropologists for many years. This is a step toward understanding how it came about.
Bill Gill
A study of brain activity while making stone tools and while taking a standard language test showed that the same part of the brain was active for both tasks. This suggests that the ability to have a language would have developed at the same time as the ability to make stone tools.
When we developed the ability to have a language has been a big question for paleoanthropologists for many years. This is a step toward understanding how it came about.
Bill Gill