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Subject: When and where
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shadow27 20.06.18 - 04:08am
did humans start talking?


I have a theory.. * +

shadow27 20.06.18 - 04:12am
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. * +

birdy 20.06.18 - 04:12am
I used to have a book about songbirds. * +

mikeymk 20.06.18 - 04:21am
I'd be more inclined to focus on when they stop talking. * +

psnality 20.06.18 - 06:53am
The men probably just started grunting and the women started moaning. * +

deusexmachina 20.06.18 - 07:14am
I had recorded Saturdays match and was doing really well at avoiding the result until the songbirds piped up. * +

shadow27 20.06.18 - 07:58am
''.. 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.. * +

shadow27 20.06.18 - 08:03am
''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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