Evolving Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image “The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evolving Language Started Thinking
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors'… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series. — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Life is the proving ground of an evolving soul.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
Men's style has evolved significantly, but for the better. And mine's ever evolving too. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
