A long-standing debate concerns whether humans are specialized for speech perception ; in the the second half of the nineteenth century, two of the primary figures in this debate were Charles Darwin and Friedrich Max Müller. A distinguished scholar and one of the leading figures of Victorian cultural life, Müller stated that language was a “Rubicon” [...]
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Rubicon crossed?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animal, Apes, Darwin, Friedrich Max Müller. human, language on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
