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did humans start talking? I have a theory.. |
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@shadow27 | 20 June 18 | |
I know all songbirds originate here in Australia, I've often wondered why that is.. Was it due to geographical isolation? They didn't have as many predators? Whatever it was.. there was a reason. Maybe there are similar reasons that led to humans developing speech when and where they did.
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@birdy | 20 June 18 | |
I used to have a book about songbirds.
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@mikeymk | 20 June 18 | |
I'd be more inclined to focus on when they stop talking.
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@psnality | 20 June 18 | |
The men probably just started grunting and the women started moaning.
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@deusexmachina | 20 June 18 | |
I had recorded Saturdays match and was doing really well at avoiding the result until the songbirds piped up.
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@shadow27 | 20 June 18 | |
''.. research on the bird genome has revealed that the same genes that give humans the ability to speak give birds the ability to sing. Because of this similarity, researchers will be able to use birds as lab subjects to better understand how speech evolved.'' Well, isn't that fascinating? hmm.. |
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@shadow27 | 20 June 18 | |
''Non-human primates are usually the best choice for study, but other primates don't learn to mimic vocal sounds the way humans do. But birds fit the bill. Because the way birds learn to sing specific song patterns seems to mimic the way humans learn to form words (even some of the brain regions involved are known to be the same), Jarvis and his colleagues hoped that similar genes would be involved in the process, too.'' Alright.. Who started ''talking'' first? Birds.. And then *we* copied them! Who is the mimic now? |
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@shadow27 | 20 June 18 | |
Also look up ''How human language could have evolved from birdsong'', I was going to post stuff from the article but I can't seem to access it.
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@shadow27 | 20 June 18 | |
''The two groups of birds that overwhelmingly stand out for intelligence are the songbirds and the parrots and we know they both originated in Australia. It's just fascinating - we gave the world intelligent birds. And not only that. The fossil record and the genetic record would imply we had smart parrots and songbirds in Australia at least 10 or 20 - maybe longer - a million years before you had intelligent apes. So, in Australia, you would have had the most intelligent organisms in the world.'' Apart from octopi and r*pey dolphins, I guess. |
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@say.what | 20 June 18 | |
Maybe the birds tried to copy the humans
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