Re: New Homo Species!!?

[Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>]

> > -380cc, can you have language with that? (What is possible assuming 
> > this
> is
> > a reduced specialization of language/fire capable humans and/or H.
> erectus),
>
> Erectus is reported to have lacked a type of language as we know it. 
> Only
> after ~400.000 years there is evidence that the ear could hear a
> sophisticated type of language as we know it, though it was surely, and
> obviously, different from ours.

I'd imagine so are birds, crocodiles, rabbits, bats, tigers, etc., but 
last I checked they could all communicate using airborne sound. How can 
a creature be known to lack language?I hear dogs talking to each other 
all night and birds having long range conversation by day. I don't 
imagine they're all just yelling obscenities that none of the 
responding individuals can understand. Shoot, mice have a wide variety 
of squeaks and squeal that obviously mean something, to them.