Why Is It So Difficult to Pinpoint the Emergence of the Earliest

question 51

Multiple Choice

Why is it so difficult to pinpoint the emergence of the earliest languages?

• A) Written language only appeared about 5,000 years ago.
• B) Modern apes have a rudimentary language, so it must date to at least the divergence of the human and ape lineages.
• C) There are clear structural differences in the brains of people who speak and people who don't, but we have no fossilized evidence of brain structure.
• D) Every culture reports that they have been able to speak since the beginning of time.

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