Question

HOW DO YOU THINK HUMANS CAME TO HAVE LANGUAGE? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMAN LANGUAGE AND OTHER KINDS OF COMMUNICATION?

WHAT BRAIN FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURES OR CONNECTIONS WOULD A DOG NEED TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE?

Answer 1

According to my research on articles by scientists, this happened in stages, as our ancestors evolved the adaptations needed for language. In earlier stages, human ancestors would have used a kind of protolanguage — more complex than ape communication, but lacking elements of modern language.

While humans use language to produce an infinite number of unique sentences as a form of communication, animals lack testability. Animals communicate by signal codes, which means they have a limited number of statements, generally as simple responses to certain situations.

Dogs

They don’t have language, but they communicate volumes–with their eyes, with their barks, with their entire expressive bodies.

They can read human faces–understanding the importance of using gaze to communicate and to direct our attention.

Rich in dopamine, the striatum mediates reward, pleasure and expectation–three pillars of a dog’s world.

And Dogs’ brains are smaller than ours when compared to overall body size. Our brains have more folds, meaning more surface area. And our prefrontal cortex—where higher level processing and thoughts occur—is more developed than dogs.