"From Grunts to Grammar: the Evolution of Language"

“From Grunts to Grammar”: The Evolution of Language
Odyssey: Adventures in Science
By Jeanne Miller, October 2009

Communication and language is the key to everything in this world. Of course our ancestors couldn’t talk like we do know but they had many ways. The two main things were face expressions and gestures. When did we begin talking like we do know? Historians have no idea. There are written or oral facts that show a date of the beginning of language that we know now. The only thing that we can find is some conclusions investigating some prehistoric activities. One of the most common activates was migrating. You need to be able to communicate with each other in order to migrate or move. You need communication to make a plan, decide the jobs and different tasks that people should learn and do. Some tasks do not require lots of communication but the ones that do need to be given instructions and guidance. When we evolved language and communication what was happening to our brains? They were growing. Developing, evolving. There is written proof of that in the in Homo habilis and Early Human areas of how their brains evolved when speech was evolving. One of the things that scientists discovered is that when you breathe through your mouth you are able to run faster and longer distances and communicate much more. Another interesting fact is that our brain receives 10% of the calories we eat. Clearly, we will never know, when simple communication became language but communication certainly was a big step in the human evolution and it brought many advantages when it began. 

Miller, Jeanne. "'From Grunts to Grammar: The Evolution of Language.'" Odyssey:Adventures in Science 

    Oct. 2009: 34-36. Print.