Modern language and speech can be traced back to Neandertals
he Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen researchers Dan Dediu and Stephen C. Levinson argue in their paper in Frontiers in Language Sciences that modern language and speech can be traced back to the last common ancestor we shared with the Neandertals roughly half a million years ago. Read more here:
http://www.mpg.de/7448453/Neandertals-language