By identifying ‘living fossils’ in modern speech, some researchers are arguing that human language evolved slowly through a ‘survival of the wittiest’. The theory suggests verbal humour was sexually selected over physical fighting, using visual brain regions to build the foundation of complex modern grammar
By identifying ‘living fossils’ in modern speech, some researchers are arguing that human language evolved slowly through a ‘survival of the wittiest’. The theory suggests verbal humour was sexually selected over physical fighting, using visual brain regions to build the foundation of complex modern grammar
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