Comments on: Book review – Neanderthal Language: Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of our Extinct Cousins/2020/12/18/book-review-neanderthal-language-demystifying-the-linguistic-powers-of-our-extinct-cousins/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:26:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/12/18/book-review-neanderthal-language-demystifying-the-linguistic-powers-of-our-extinct-cousins/comment-page-1/#comment-16381Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:05:41 +0000/?p=11241#comment-16381[…] evidence for language (this section is a far cry from Rudolf Botha’s critical evaluation in Neanderthal Language). Two, why are we the last ape standing? Rather than Paul Martin’s Pleistocene overkill […]

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]]>By: Book review – Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/12/18/book-review-neanderthal-language-demystifying-the-linguistic-powers-of-our-extinct-cousins/comment-page-1/#comment-16024Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:44:46 +0000/?p=11241#comment-16024[…] why H. erectus evolved a larger brain to begin with. Is this another just-so story? Botha’s Neanderthal Language also highlights collective hunting behaviour as a driver of language in this more recent hominin, […]

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]]>By: Book review – Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/12/18/book-review-neanderthal-language-demystifying-the-linguistic-powers-of-our-extinct-cousins/comment-page-1/#comment-16023Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:42:45 +0000/?p=11241#comment-16023[…] indistinguishable from early Homo sapiens; inventive, smart, social creatures, likely capable of spoken language, that survived for a very long time while weathering ice ages and warm periods. This picture is […]

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