2007-11-21 20:09:48 · 12 answers · asked by foxfoxcar 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Because only recent Homonids, including Neanderthals, developed a hyoid bone, which forms a special type of canal at the base of the throat which can regulate breathing & speaking (Pausing for several breaths)...
The other primates...Gorillas, chimps, and monkeys with tails, do NOT have this adaptation...
The other "animals", including primates, are restricted to breathing involuntarily. Later Homonids can control their breathing voluntarily, when necessary...
2007-11-21 20:40:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are talking animals. Just a different species in the same family.
That is all.
2007-11-23 05:43:39 · answer #2 · answered by Harihara S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are animals, but we talk because our level of intelligence is way higher than that of other animals. Other animals have other means of communication like sign language and simple sounds like howling, shouting and others
2007-11-22 05:10:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Animals do talk just in there own language
2007-11-22 04:16:40 · answer #4 · answered by roberzie 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Whales and dolphins talk up a storm in their own language. We just don't understand it..........yet.
Monkeys, dogs, and some other animals, seem to understand somewhat when we tell them something. They just can't answer in our language.
2007-11-22 05:45:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All animals communicate in some form.
We have evolved over the many millenia of our existance, and so too has our means of communication.
If anthropologists are to be believed, we didn't always use words...and words are not our only means of communication.
2007-11-22 04:21:14 · answer #6 · answered by PopsGifts 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
we talk because we are the highest of all animals who are given the will and intellect by God.
2007-11-23 21:14:35 · answer #7 · answered by stargirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FIsh and fowl talk too, we just can't understand them.
2007-11-22 04:13:17 · answer #8 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We have the capacity and the desire to do so.
2007-11-22 11:57:46 · answer #9 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because we have evoved to have a larynx
2007-11-22 05:01:36 · answer #10 · answered by Orphelia 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋