APES COULD SPEAK! ( Brain Function Discovery at Georgia St.)

BBC via Pravda.Ru Newswire ^ | September 30, 2001 21:05 | William Hopkins & Claudio Cantalupo-Georgia State University

[umbra]

Three families of anthropoid apes posses an important brain function connected with speech faculties. Earlier it was supposed this function to be exceptionally human brains prerogative. According to BBC, investigators from Atlanta State -Georgia, carried out a resonance-magnetic scanning of a chimpanzee, baboon and gorilla brains. Now the scientists are sure nobody has investigated yet such an important structure of anthrpoid apes brain.

If their discovery is corroborated, it will become one more important contribution to the evolution theory:it will be clear that human being obtained speech faculty before homo sapience and other big primates ways dispersed forever.

In a human brain there is so-called Brock zone, whose one of the components is called the Brockman 44 zone. Namely this zone, situated mostly in the left center hemisphere and partly in the right one, is responsible for forming speech. Claudio Cantalupo and William Hopkins from Georgia State University were puzzled that the apes also possesed this structure, though they could not speak. It is not clear for what functions the apes need this Brock zone, especially taking into account that the primitave anthropoid apes' "language" is not similar to the complicated human speech. This could be explained only with the role gesticulation played in evolution of human speech.

The anthropoid apes observed by the investigators most often gesticulated with their right hand, especially when the accompany their gestures with a kind of vioce signals. If the scientsts' theory is right, the left side of zone-44 was gradually enlarging, while both human predecessors and anthropoid apes were learning gesticulate and produce laryngeal sounds. Though later, by unknown reasons, human gestures and sounds grew into speech, while the apes' ones remained the same gestures forever.

[isom35]

so far we do not have a correct answer.

[billybudd]

whose one of the components is called the Brockman 44 zone

Sheesh. If you're going to write, do it well. This phrase is like a big stain on an otherwise nice piece of clothing.

[Maceman]

As my yiddishe grandmother would have said: "So vy they don't say something?"

[911]

Smile.

[isom35]

we have a winner! an ape said "smile" while taking a picture of captured humans.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

So what. It's not speaking that makes us intelligent it is reasoning.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[det dweller too]

I think that is the key. Man is where he is because he can [sometimes] think. every other life form simply reacts to external stimulus. Man [please spare the PC feminist BS] can think and that gives him a chance to get out of his worldly traps. I say sometimes because any observer of daytime TV would have to conclude that sentient life has not quite reached earth. We are physically capable but not culturally capable of cognitive thought.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

My wife thinks it's because we can make fudge.

[gunshy]

I thought the first sub-humans to speak were bill and hillary clinton.

[wayne_shrugged]

APES COULD SPEAK!

What do you mean, "Apes *COULD* speak?"

Apes *DO* speak -- we had one as x42 and its mate, the current infamous senator, the "I'm-melting," don't-look-into-my-eyes-except-through-a-mirror, Laura-Bush-is-getting-too-much-publicity-on-the-oppression-of-Afghani-women, I-want-to-be-the-first-so-called-female-president-of-the-US, black-panther-sympathizing, Communist-rag-doll Hitlery.

[Rain-maker]

Methinks the professors were smoking left-handed cigarettes while watching the new "Planet of the Apes" DVD last weekend.
Any chance these authors got a stake in 20th Century Fox Productions?...LOL

[StacyMac]

"All your bananas are belong to us!"

[GOPJ]

Funny how we can't talk with those we evolved with but think we could speak to aliens from a distant world.

[MHGinTN]

Ern, with the advent of spirit mixed into the human soul, there came peanut butter fudge ... and it was good don'tcha know!

[Redcloak]

Do great apes have a hyoid bone? If not, that might explain why they haven't got a larger Brockman 44 Zone. Why would one have a more developed zone 44 if they didn't have a hyoid bone?

Conversely, why would one develop a hyoid bone if they didn't have a more developed zone 44?

[F16Fighter]

It will become one more contribution to the evolution theory.

Translation: Instead of the creation of 'Hamlet' by one-trillion monkeys typing for one-trillion years, now subtract 3 monkeys and 20 minute from the equation...

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

LMAO

SOMEONE SET US UP THE DIRTY APE