Evolving Quote by Frans de Waal

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each…

— Terence McKenna

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook…

— Jon Stewart

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the…

— Julian Jaynes

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

— Leonard Shlain

“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction with others.…

— Larry Gottlieb

The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors'…

— Roger Fouts

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

— Gene Wolfe

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet