BAPFOHL
May 23, 2001
Where did human language come from?


1. The Big Bang

• Do you believe in "Creationism"?
  (That's the theory that God created all living things directly, without evolution)

2. Darwin is our friend

• Darwin: his life and his theories



• An evolution computer model you can try
  (if you understand genes)

3. Can chimpanzees talk?

• Review of the attempts to teach language to apes



• Can gorillas learn sign language?



• Jane Goodall talks about chimpanzees



• All about bonobos

4. Talking fossils

• A very long list of scholarly research on language evolution



• A big conference on language evolution at Harvard



• Ancient and modern skulls (requires Shockwave)

5. Logic and language origins

• A research center for computer models of language evolution