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I don't think so but apparantly some of my friends do, I am looking for some people who maybe know a bit about evolution etc to answer this. Thanks Star me!

2007-11-20 08:31:18 · 36 answers · asked by Beauty&Brains 4 in Pets Other - Pets

36 answers

We would have to selectively breed them based on vocal chord structure. To succeed easily, however, their genetic code would have to have the components necessary to reproduce our vocal chords. This is unlikely. This means that we would have to introduce specific mutations into their genes to get the desired result.
This has nothing to do with domestication, and is still way out of the realm of our current knowledge.
Without a conscious human effort to make this change, it just wouldn't happen. There's no selective pressure favoring human speech, and it is too far off from where they currently are to come from a single mutation.

2007-11-20 08:41:12 · answer #1 · answered by BNP 4 · 3 0

Given enough time, maybe. Not exactly like us however.

Evolution has tried this and that, seemingly randomly for so long. What is the ultimate goal? Evidently, we are at the pinnacle of evolution, in just the mere fact that we can contemplate our own existence.

Evolution has created us, and we have gotten to the point that we can change DNA code ourselves, and create creatures that either would never have existed, or make ones better for our own purposes. Who's to say that some lab isn't already modifying lower animals DNA structure, to create "talking dogs" or what not (perhaps something more useful, or malicious).

Believing in evolution, does not forsake a belief in God, or a higher power that we are incapable of understanding. Those that discount it, are doing a disservice to humanity. The mere fact that we can finally change DNA ourselves is proof of evolution, maybe not the exact same concept that is generally accepted, but it's right here, right now. Evolution is finally aware of itself.

2007-11-20 08:47:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Like you said. It's the evolution thing that would have to kick in. Dogs and cats currently are not equipped to even think about speaking. And as far as being domesticated well they all ready are about as domesticated as they are going to get.

2007-11-20 08:43:25 · answer #3 · answered by John K 2 · 0 0

It's not a matter of domestication, it's a matter of sound production and cognitive ability. As they currently exist, cats and dogs, no matter how domestic, can't mimick the range of human sounds. For starters, they don't have the vocal structures to use language in the way we do. In other words, they're simply incapable of creating the same sets of sounds we are.

As far as in the future goes? Who knows. It's possible that they could, in the far distant future, evolve such that they're able to reproduce the same kinds of sounds that human beings produce.

2007-11-20 08:36:02 · answer #4 · answered by grendalguy 2 · 2 0

Beauty,
Domesticating animals doesn't make them smarter or smart enough to talk in a human language. Animals (at least cats and dogs) don't have the necessary vocal organs to 'speak' like we do.

However, humans can learn animal's language (usually body language, behavior, and noises they make) and be able to communicate with them.

Chimps on the other hand, may be able to evolve to become more like humans, since we are not that far in the evolutionary scale.

2007-11-20 10:29:46 · answer #5 · answered by Think Richly™ 5 · 2 0

I believe dogs and maybe cats can talk to you now and communicate with you in their way. Animals are not dumb, they just can't speak our words. I have seen so many animals do stuff that made me say, wow, now thats is something, from deer helping each other and watching out for danger and squirrels barking to warn other animals to cattle and the rules they have with each other in the herd, they all communicate with each other, its just not all verbal like we talk. But when your dog looks at you and makes his sound he is saying "pay attention to me" "feed me" "hug me" believe me I have a lab who thinks he is a kid and he has learned to open doors and come inside and he thinks its ok.

2007-11-20 12:42:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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2016-10-17 13:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Well, see their brains can't process like ours.

It's all so complex, we haven't even been able to control or even find out what most of our brain does. I think we only use like 13%, some low number like that.

But see if cats and dogs could speak, then their brains would be a size similar to ours.

Thats just what i think.

But sometimes I really wish they could talk.

2007-11-20 08:37:06 · answer #8 · answered by Raven 5 · 0 1

Well... with nature and the process of evolution and LOTS of time... anything is possible...

but it is highly unlikely... I mean... why would a dog need to speak in order to survive or be bred...

maybe if we kept breeding them based on their voicebox, and the section in the brain that controls speech over a couple of eons, they will come around...

2007-11-20 08:35:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I am by no means an expert on this, but I doubt it. Animals have other means of communication which we are not adept at perceiving, and it works fine for them. We tend to glorify speech as the end all be all means of communication, but I'm sure the animals think "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

2007-11-20 08:57:33 · answer #10 · answered by Pfo 7 · 1 0

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