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Did Homo Erectus build the Tower of Babel?

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08-25-2008 4:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by bluegenes
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From the Wiki article on Homo erectus;
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The discovery of Turkana boy in 1984 has shown evidence that despite H. erectus's human-like anatomy, they were not capable of producing sounds of a complexity comparable to modern speech. They may have communicated with a pre-language lacking the fully developed structure of human language but more developed than the basic communication used by chimpanzees.
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How does that gel with a story that revolves around language?
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