Homo Erectus
The Ancients
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The Origins of Human Language
There has been a big debate about whether or not the erectines do have. There are other suggestions that even if they did have certain forms of language, it wasn't as fully developed as ours. It's so interesting because there seems to be this kind of idea that with fire making therefore follows lots of social engagement and therefore perhaps the origins, the development of language. So I'm guessing that's another potential idea. Possibility, I'm not going to say concrete but possibility that it's with homorectus that perhaps the first forms of human language might evolve.
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