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.

[umbra]

The evolution arguement sounds like a huge strech.

[isom35]

tonights quiz question: in planet of the apes (the heston version) what is the first word you hear an ape say?

[kayak]

APES COULD SPEAK!

Gee, I knew this already. Just turn on your tv set and look at the talking heads there all day .... proof positive!

[freethinkingman]

Yet another thing that science and namely "evolution" cannot explain, could it be intelligence was "designed" in one species and not another?

[Thumper1960]

No.

[tubebender]

You and I must have gone to different schools together!

[Trueblackman]

Well this explain Terry McAuffle Tom Daschle Hillary and Bill Clinton Al Gore and Dicky Gephardt. We need to send a gift basket of fruit to each!!!

[IronJack]

This is old news. Didn't you watch the Democratic convention?

[Thumper1960]

Fruit baskets....heavy on the bananas for Bill and Hill.

[eno_]

I bet if they could be genetically modified to put off puberty until an older age, they could unlock speech in apes. Very scary stuff. We really could make a "subhuman" race.

[wildconservatism]

Oh no! Now they're going to be covered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, too!

[butter pecan fan]

"Mama."

What do I win?

[JRandomFreeper]

Yes. His name is Dewayne and he's my former brother-in-law. Talk about a knuckle dragger...

/john

[butter pecan fan]

Actually this may not be right...

[mseltzer]

Get your dirty hands off me you damn ape?

[Thumper1960]

hmmmmmm............and here I was sure it was "no".

Must've been that Dasshole word that was spoken first to Prez. Bush when the former took control of the Senate by coup.

[mseltzer]

Oops, I got that backwards

[Thumper1960]

In "Planet of the Democrat Apes", Heston screams:"Take your dirty hands off my gun, you damned Commie ape!". To which Cornelius exclaims: "My God! A talking Republican!"

[Billthedrill]

Speak? Heck, they can vote. Some of them appear to have a problem with dimpled chads, though...

[FreePaul]

Georgia? No they weren't apes. Just some of the locals who could make sounds that sounded like speach. Given more time evolution can improve on this.