Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:54:38 +0100
Subject: Re(2): Paper on chimp culture
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: I.Price@shu.ac.uk (Ilfryn PRICE)
Mario points out
>But far less efficient than human infants, especially for spoken language. Because
>they lack our anatomical speaking capacities and probably are far less efficient
>in picking up syntactical meanings of all the different intonations we use.
And if you read Elaine Morgan's aquatic ape hypothesis there is a powerful argument that those anatomical capabilities
originally evolved for easier holding of breath under water or gulping of air on surfacing. The whole of culture then becomes
an exaption.
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