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Psychology of Language - Why is Man the Only Animal to Have Evolved Language?
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Psychology of Language-3COG 308 Why is Man the Only Animal to Have Evolved Language? This essay looks at possible reasons why man seems to be the only animal to have evolved language. Although animals can communicate, there is no species within which a system comparable to human language can be found. There is a lot that is unclear about the origins & the evolution of language, which makes it more difficult to understand why humans have this capacity & animals do not. The faculty for language must have come about when Homo sapiens was differentiated from other species, this in itself, offers a clue, humans followed a separate line of development, one that is not shared by other species. If the first indication of a proto-language facility occurred at this time, then there could have been around 350, 000 generations from then, until now for language to develop into what it is...
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