Simplification in laryngeal anatomy, compared to nonhuman primates, enabled complex speech in humans
Evolutionary simplification in the human larynx – the loss of vocal membranes and air sacs common to all nonhuman primates – enabled the increased acoustic complexity required by human speech, ...
Griffiths, Thomas A. 1983. "Comparative laryngeal anatomy of the Big Brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus, and the Mustached bat, Pteronotus parnellii." Mammalia, 47, (3) 377–394.
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