Emergence Quote by Richard Leakey

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

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration…

— William Irwin Thompson

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one…

— Noam Chomsky

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible…

— Gertrude Stein

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution.…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Leonard Shlain

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett