Human Language: An All or Nothing Proposition

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by Brian Thomas, M.S.

If humans evolved through a piece-by-piece accretion of parts, then so did their ability to talk. Although talking seems simple, it actually depends on so many perfectly placed characteristics--both material and immaterial--that language must be a gift from God.

Charles Darwin proposed that human language evolved through nature selecting the best grunters from a crowd of ape-like ancestors. For support, Darwin cited people he had observed in Tierra del Fuego. He described the Fuegians as savages and “primitive beasts,” whose Yahgan language had a mere 100 or so words and sounded like animal grunts and clicks.1

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