Evolution and Language
If you read Chinese, there are a couple of good sites that look at character etymology:
If you’re confined to English, here are a couple of good sites:
The Institute of Creation Research has a bullshit article about how Chinese characters tell Bible stories:
icr.orgAnd some of the videos I showed can be found at:
Youtube Video
Youtube Video
Youtube VideoMy claim that two papers “confirm” a theory that language came from Africa got a bit of a roasting, and deservedly so. It would be more accurate to say they “support” the theory. My reason for saying this is not just one of the papers that I mentioned in the video:
“Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa” - Quentin Atkinson, Science, April 2011.
There is also fossil evidence that humans and neanderthals had a hyoid bone located in a position consistent with speech, which suggests they share a common ancestor who could speak — and the common ancestor of humans and neanderthals lived in Africa.I don’t know of any study — I may be wrong — that suggests language originated prior to 60,000 years ago, when the human diaspora began. Unfortunately since this was not the main topic of the video I didn’t research this too deeply or mention a lot of the supporting evidence or the controversy among linguists.