Humans and Language: A Survey of the Gesture-Primacy Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Origins of Language

At the core of human behavior and activity is our strong inclination, and indeed, our need to be social with one another. All of us, along with other species in the animal kingdom, achieve sociality through some means of communication. Humans, however, have taken communication to a level beyond that of our animal relatives –Continue reading “Humans and Language: A Survey of the Gesture-Primacy Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Origins of Language”