Monkey calls give clues to language origins

[Offroad]

It's interesting, worth reading.

Monkey calls give clues to language origins

[Trance Freak]

could be, if you think that monkeys are our ancestors

[Offroad]

could be, if you think that monkeys are our ancestors

That's a very common misunderstanding. Humans and monkeys are different species.

Are you going to say that we were made from sand and wind?

[Trance Freak]

That's a very common misunderstanding. Humans and monkeys are different species.

Are you going to say that we were made from sand and wind?

Nope, but defo from mud - well, ehh.. religiously speaking.
Anyways, the article you posted is interesting, keep up

[brainslush]

That's a very common misunderstanding. Humans and monkeys are different species.

Are you going to say that we were made from sand and wind?

That might be true but both have the same roots and so it's not suprising that both species developed similar characteristics and skills.

This article was quit interisting.

[Offroad]

Charles Darwin, himself, said monkeys and man are similar species, but not exactly the same.

On The Origin of Species.

[euncu]

As far as I know from the evolutionary biology, the human beings and the chimpanzee have a common ancestor.I mean the chimpanzee are not the descendent of the human being.
As for the monkey calls,I think a language is not just voices, abstracting comes first,and it seems that monkeys,apes,etc. have an abstracting capability to some degree.

[Tdol]

Isn't the orang utan our closest relative?

[Offroad]

Isn't the orang utan our closest relative?

That's going to depend.