Motherese and human evolution</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Motherese and human evolution"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Motherese,and,human,evolution"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">07-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Motherese and human evolution</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_tbc7LXAUDqOtb3WbiyiS_0.jpeg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Florida, USA (Myrtle Beach Sun News): Every mother speaks "motherese," the singsongy coos and goos used to talk to her baby. The language is not just a dumbed-down form of grown-up talk, but it lies at the root of how all humans speak, according to a theory recently published in a peer-reviewed journal by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University. Her theory, published in the latest edition of “Behavioral and Brain Sciences”, says "motherese" began 1.6 million years ago, contradicting the commonly held notion that humans didn't start talking until about 98,000 B.C <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/10830499.htm " target="blank">www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/10830499.htm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show