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Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed
Science News reports on research suggesting that humans' language ability may have developed earlier than we thought. Scientists used CT scanning of H. heidelbergensis skulls, more than 530,000 years old, to reconstruct the structure of the ear canal of this Neanderthal ancestor. They found evidence that the ears of these early hominids would have had a sensitivity peak in the same 2-4 KHz range that the ears of modern humans do — the range in which most information is carried in language. Sensory systems are neurologically expensive, and it's unlikely that the body would invest the resources in maintaining such a system if it didn't serve a purpose. Quoting: "It may be time to rethink the stereotype of grunting, wordless Neanderthals. The prehistoric humans may have been quite chatty — at least if the ear canals of their ancestors are any indication. The findings suggest human speech may have originated earlier than some researchers contend. Anthropologists disagree about whether language sprang up rapidly around 50,000 years ago or emerged more gradually over a longer period of time..."
Don't you know that Eve was African, and she was not just one woman nor even many women, but both many women and men, who are represented by one female skeleton, called Eve, which according to all related branches of science is much older than the measly 6000 years that your fellows try to claim. If anybody in their group comes up with 6000 years for Eve they would laugh, or call out mumbo jumbo, or superstition, or try to convince you of the richness and accuracy of the combinations of the various dating techniques or stop discussing it with you alltogether; in fact I was in two minds myself whether to waste my time on it. Seriously, you need to toss away Adam and Eve as a theory, because you know that detail and what goes with it so much more poorly than what all the Science knows about it all; in fact it is even not claimed as knowledge but as faith, which by the definition of the word accepts that it is not KNOWN as truth but still pretended to be truth. I know that 1+1=2, and many other facts that I can prove, and because science shows every step of its conclusions in a logical empirical step by step fashion, I believe in science in general, although their theories, their possible next step, may at times not agree with me. You also know that 1+1=2, and many other facts that you could somehow prove, but at some point you break the chain of provable fact, and simply leap onto something unproven, which, further to that, is in so many ways in contradiction of all the rest that Science has found out. Did you know that Adam means man. When the old Hebrews handed down their story of how they all came to be, of course they had to present in their story the first father (and mother). So they just called him "man". And, much later, as the language changed, or not, the word for man had become used as name. You need no bible for that logic, it's just a story that belongs to a people.