Neanderthals speak out after 30,000 years

[danmand]

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13672

 

[bobistheowl]

"Undeterred, the linguist teamed with McCarthy to simulate Neanderthal speech based on new reconstructions of three Neanderthal vocal tracts. The 50,000-year old fossils all came from France."

No doubt, even 50,000 years ago, the French could not have resisted the urge to correct others' pronounciation at any given opportunity.

 

[S.C. Joe]

Its a GOOD thing they died out, its bad enough between the blacks and whites.

Could you just see how it be if there was 2 types of animals that could talk, write-drive cars, etc.

 

[S.C. Joe]

Then we would have 4 !

It be unreal-at least with the races now, one can say we are all still human but if another branch of humans came around then what?

We just might kill each other off !

 

[S.C. Joe]

Remember one of the Planet of the Apes movies where the baby Ape was a talking Ape and the USA government was looking for it so they could kill it ? I could understand why.