Re: speech

John Waters (jdwaters@dircon.co.uk)
15 Dec 1996 23:33:14 GMT

morphis@niuhep.physics.niu.edu wrote in article
<58so8s$br5@corn.cso.niu.edu>...
> shorty question, what is the speculation on when language
came about?
> Neanderthal? Earlier? Any guesses at what level that
language existed
> in Neanderthal?

JW: Would you care to define the word *language* here? What
do you mean by this? How would this compare with a
(typical) present day hunter gatherer language?

John.