Origin of Language; second afterthought (Origins)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 23:21 (3296 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:Innovation in general, though, does not have to be the result of need - it can also happen because of new opportunities offered by a change in the environment. Once more, the purpose is survival and/or self-improvement. We don't know why the apes descended, but if fins could be changed to legs, I don't see why a larynx couldn't be made to drop.-Very hopeful and iffy suggestion. I don't buy it. Fins to legs required enormous changes. The larynx dropped but is not present on fossils, since it is soft tissue. The only fossil evidence is from the arched palate starting to appear at 1.5 million years ago. Speech possibly appearing at 100,000 years ago. I look at this as good planning and not fitting your hoped for 3rd way of producing evolution.-> 
> dhw: Cell communities coordinate purposefully in astonishing ways, as you have demonstrated repeatedly on your Nature's Wonders thread..... These explanations do not sound more reasonable to me than God giving organisms the wherewithal to do their own inventing.-I'll stick with God.