William carlos william
Mariam Kurasbediani
Given that the Homo erectus, the long-lived early human ancestors to ever walk our planet nearly 1.9 to 200,000 years ago—were able to hunt, gather, and use simple tools thus, being able to survive in different environments—a rudimentary form of language (protolanguage) helped them to communicate and cooperate in their family groups. This paper agrees with Bickerton’s analysis by drawing factual evidence from BBC’s Documentary "Prehistoric Autopsy-Episode Two: Homo erectus” that is hosted by physical Anthropologist Professor Roberts Alice and the Biologist Dr. McGavin George. In the documentary, the duo explores the evolution of the human species and all that is known about our hominid cousins and early ancestors, focusing on the behavior of the Neanderthal, Homo erectus, and Autralopithecus afarencis (History Essentials, 2013).
In his analysis, Bickerton argues that wherever life evolves, it will inevitably create creatures that think and communicate, either more or less, than humans do today; in other words, evolution leads back to humans . According to him, our earlier ancestors had a latent capacity for language as suggested by the ratio of their brain size to body size that have been plotted over the years, alongside their accompanying social toolkits. He takes his argument even a notch higher, by proposing that Homo erectus used a sort of protolanguage, which allows the combination of at most two elements in a structure, unlike true language as we know it today. The prehistoric analysis points out that the Homo erectus were spread all over Africa and advanced to other places in the entire old world, hunting, gathering, building fires, and could also maneuver a set of tools; this clearly indicates that they had a full developed proto-language (History Essentials, 2013). Since various hominid species arose but got distinct along the way during human evolution, except for the Homo erectus, the long-lived and very
Given that the Homo erectus, the long-lived early human ancestors to ever walk our planet nearly 1.9 to 200,000 years ago—were able to hunt, gather, and use simple tools thus, being able to survive in different environments—a rudimentary form of language (protolanguage) helped them to communicate and cooperate in their family groups. This paper agrees with Bickerton’s analysis by drawing factual evidence from BBC’s Documentary "Prehistoric Autopsy-Episode Two: Homo erectus” that is hosted by physical Anthropologist Professor Roberts Alice and the Biologist Dr. McGavin George. In the documentary, the duo explores the evolution of the human species and all that is known about our hominid cousins and early ancestors, focusing on the behavior of the Neanderthal, Homo erectus, and Autralopithecus afarencis (History Essentials, 2013).
In his analysis, Bickerton argues that wherever life evolves, it will inevitably create creatures that think and communicate, either more or less, than humans do today; in other words, evolution leads back to humans . According to him, our earlier ancestors had a latent capacity for language as suggested by the ratio of their brain size to body size that have been plotted over the years, alongside their accompanying social toolkits. He takes his argument even a notch higher, by proposing that Homo erectus used a sort of protolanguage, which allows the combination of at most two elements in a structure, unlike true language as we know it today. The prehistoric analysis points out that the Homo erectus were spread all over Africa and advanced to other places in the entire old world, hunting, gathering, building fires, and could also maneuver a set of tools; this clearly indicates that they had a full developed proto-language (History Essentials, 2013). Since various hominid species arose but got distinct along the way during human evolution, except for the Homo erectus, the long-lived and very