In Charles Darwin’s vision of the origins of language, early humans had already developed
musical ability prior to language and were using it “to charm each other.” This may not match
the typical image that most of us have of our early ancestors as rather rough characters
wearing animal skins and not very charming, but it is an interesting speculation about how
language may have originated. It remains, however, a speculation.
We simply don’t know how language originated.We simply don’t know how 更多
