Author Question: From an evolutionary perspective, ape language experiments a. give us no clues to the origins of ... (Read 106 times)

RRMR · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

From an evolutionary perspective, ape language experiments

a. give us no clues to the origins of human language.
b. indicate that human language capabilities must have been present in the last common ancestor of hominids and the African apes.
c. indicate that apes will soon evolve human-like language capabilities.
d. suggest some clues to the origin of human language.
e. indicate no common ancestral characteristics.

Question 2

In most people, language function is

a. located in the left hemisphere of the brain.
b. controlled by only a few cells located in one specific area of the cortex.
c. controlled only by the same areas that are used in the production of all vocalizations in nonhuman primates.
d. simply a result of increased brain size.
e. not related to the reorganization of neurological structures during the course of human evolution.