Hey, this is turning into a fun thread, battle of the sexes kind of thing. Another slant on the question : music. Some 10 years ago now I met young Sherry Edwards at a science conference in Ft Collins. She was born with “perfect pitch”, sound/music was her WORLD. She had mapped out all the molecules of the body and their natural sound resonances/frequencies.
Thus, just by listening to your voice she knew what molecules/organs needed massaging with a specific sound frequency. So in talking to her she said : Oh, it’s your pancreas, that’s an F# : dials her computer, puts the head phones on me and KA-WHAM, I feel wonderful right now.
No, it’s not psychosomatic, this is a REAL cause and effect thing. Other than her FEES being a bit high, you call her up on the phone, she cranks it through her computer and back over the phone comes the right healing/massage frequencies. Sounds too simple, yes?
And yet, think about it, why do you like music, or to talk? SCIENTIFICALLY it’s a molecular massage. So when men are out there in the field grunting along with their job, and exercising their muscles/molecules; women are at home, getting their exercise by talking to each other as a mutual molecular massage routine.
Thus my $2 is still on women as the inventors of language, discoverers of the molecular massage technique of talking and singing.
Wel-l-l-l-l...I'm not too sure I want my molecules massaged in public. You never know who might be watching/listening. ;o]
When I get hungry for the human voice, I put on some of my favorite music. Some is sung, some is not.
I think my mother decided I was so independent I didn't need human contact. Go figger. One of my jobs was as a telephone CSR. *snort*
I don’t see why women couldn’t have invented language.