Bonobos Converse

 Grooming.Here is part of the scenario for language origins favored on this blog: long ago our ancestors began losing body hair with potentially ruinous dangers to the species. It reduced the ability to form bonds based on grooming and it made it difficult to move with a baby who, in previous generations, held on tightly to mama 's hair. The solution was bonding via babbling and sharing responsibility for the baby. For a long time, the human lineage made meaningless sounds that provided emotional ties, and eventually particularly sounds became associated with specific things or people.I defend this argument by pointing out that vocal-based bonding still precedes language today. Infants go through a period of babbling before they talk and sometimes their babbling becomes quite social. Yo...

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