Re: Neanderthal "voice boxes"?

Jim Foley (jimf@vangelis.co.symbios.com)
8 Jan 1997 00:13:18 GMT

In article <5ao8tn$8nk$1@usenet.dacom.co.kr>,
Michael Plant <sisaki@bora.dacom.co.kr> wrote:

>Recently I have regained access to the internet after a long absence.
>I have also been given a (rather badly written) monograph called
>"The Great Debate", a creationist reader for ESL students. At any rate,
>in both the monograph and at some creationist sites there is mention of
>recent finds of well preserved Neanderthal remains with intact voice boxes
>"proving" that they were capable of speech. The monograph even cites a
>Scientific American article (of course, without giving author, volume, or
>publication date).
>
>I haven't been "out of the loop" that long; perhaps a year. I certainly
>have never heard of any finds like this and am very skeptical but intrigued.
>Does anyone on the list know anything about this?

Check out "The Neandertal Enigma", by James Shreeve. It talked about
this debate.

-- 
Jim (Chris) Foley, jim.foley@symbios.com
Assoc. Prof. of Omphalic Envy Research interest:
Department of Anthropology Primitive hominids
University of Ediacara (Australopithecus creationistii)