[pepsionice]

You have to wonder about this first guy. He has a word vocabulary of probagbly twelve words, and has looking at this fancy rock for several days. Then he figures out how to tie the rock onto the spear. A day later, he’s made one for each of the ten guys in the village. Then they all go out and start hunting big-game, and take on some pretty tough creatures.

[JRandomFreeper]

Chimps have at least 10 different vocalizations associated with different emotions/events. I'll bet our ancestors were a little more sophisticated than that.

/johnny

[muawiyah]

Even quacking ducks have at least a dozen words, and those in the wild probably have more than 20. Dogs have several dozen.

Early man had a full vocabulary sufficient to his environment ~ and that probably amounted to hundreds of individual words and thousands of combinations.

gelada baboons are the current animal d'jour since they may well have a very highly developed vocalization system ~ fun reading BTW.

Now, back to spear chucking ~

[knarf]

"Then they all go out and start hunting big-game, and take on some pretty tough creatures."

Yeah, n'they started globull warming by chasing all them dino-farts out ... while in pursuit.