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他们思考,所以他们说话。

[They thought; therefore, they spoke].

作者信息

Portera Sánchez A

出版信息

An R Acad Nac Med (Madr). 1999;116(2):451-61; discussion 461-2.

Abstract

All functions that characteristically define each form of life are the consequence of the unpredictable process of evolution. The appearance around 300,000 years ago of a complex system of language allowed the homo sapiens to verbally express his thoughts, feelings and experiences in a narrative manner. Thus began the great and continuous development of knowledge and the subsequent post-biological improvement of cognitive functions as a consequence of the stimulation of brain plasticity. This complex process vas not rapid. Important structural and functional craneofacial and pharyngo-laryngeal changes were necessary. Some were already present four million years ago in the australopitecus and became more efficient in homo erectus to reach the definite dimensions of modern humans 125,000 years ago in the homo sapiens-sapiens. From then on a continuous, productive and interactive relationship between the ability to think and the capacity to speak was established. New anonymous ideas invent their corresponding words which, in turn, create more complex sequential thoughts. The fundamental contribution of language in the development of human intelligence raises the question fo which of the two functions preceded the other or whether they both evolved simultaneously. Is it possible to assume that if the pharyngo-laryngeal structures ad not evolved at all, the brain would have invented another type of language?

摘要

所有典型地定义每种生命形式的功能都是不可预测的进化过程的结果。大约30万年前出现的复杂语言系统使智人能够以叙事的方式口头表达自己的思想、情感和经历。于是,知识开始了伟大而持续的发展,以及随后由于大脑可塑性的刺激而带来的认知功能的后生物改进。这个复杂的过程并不迅速。重要的颅面和咽喉结构及功能变化是必要的。其中一些在四百万年前的南方古猿身上就已存在,并在直立人身上变得更加高效,直到12.5万年前的智人-智人达到现代人类的确定尺寸。从那时起,思维能力和说话能力之间就建立了一种持续、富有成效且相互作用的关系。新的无名想法创造出它们相应的词汇,而这些词汇反过来又创造出更复杂的连贯思想。语言在人类智力发展中的根本作用提出了这样一个问题:这两种功能中哪一种先出现,或者它们是否同时进化。是否可以假设,如果咽喉结构根本没有进化,大脑会发明另一种语言形式?

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