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Can the development of the ability to use language be determined by fossil record

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A little.

The first perspective that language evolved from the calls of our ancestors seems logical because both humans and animals make sounds or cries. ... Therefore, we resort to the idea that language was derived from gesture (we communicated by gesture first and sound was attached later)
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