Acquire Quote by Roger Fouts

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

— Frans de Waal

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

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

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it…

— B. F. Skinner

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

“Perhaps best known is the case of Koko, the gorilla to whom the Gorilla Foundation taught American Sign Language. Koko learned more than a…

— Ken Robinson

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

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that…

— Noam Chomsky

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only…

— Paulo Freire

“If you want to communicate with an ape, try communicating about these topics. Just remember to keep it simple. You may be surprised. Boyce…

— Denise D.Cummins

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a…

— Richard Leakey