oldmanintheskydidntdoit
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FTK,
I guess the designer just likes right handers?
gorillas-right-handedness-clues-human-language
| Quote | Psychologist Dr Gillian Forrester, a visiting fellow at the University of Sussex, has been studying a family of gorillas at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent. Using a specially developed coding system for analysis, she and her team identified which hand gorillas used when doing activities such as: using objects and eating or preparing food (described as 'inanimate targets), and which hand they used for social interactions, such as: scratching their head, patting their friend on the back or mothering ('animate targets').
They found the gorillas were more likely to use their right hands for inanimate targets and either hand with equal frequency - for social interaction. In the human population, 90 per cent are right-handed - and 95 per cent of these right-handers have language centres in the left hemisphere of the brain. |
| Quote | Dr Forrester says the relationship between right-handedness and language may be due to the repurposing of a brain area once used for structured sequences of events, such as tool use and manufacture, in a common human-ape ancestor. 'The basic hierarchy of steps required to make and use tools could be akin to providing us with the scaffolding to build a syntax for language.'
The study, 'Target animacy influences gorilla handedness', is published this month in Animal Cognition. |
But hey. I can see you've already spotted this story and have made a comment already!
Dr Forrester is hereby scraping the bottom of the evolutionary barrel in trying to find an explanation for the existence of language in the human brain. Since evolution [defined as descend from a single common ancestor] is biologically impossible, she is on a hiding to nothing. Whatever further results she comes up with, it'll only be conjecture and a guess as to the probability of the evolution of language in the human brain, given an ancestor from the ape/chimp family.
We were created directly as human beings with language, music and emotional expression in place from day one. No evolution required.
I contend that [single ancestor] evolution is impossible since the proposed mechanisms, namely random mutation and natural selection, are incapable of generating the complex information required to create new materials, new structures, shapes, functions and abilities to use/employ those new structures and capabilities. Most of these lie OUTSIDE of the cell, hence no inside changes helps.
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I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies".
FTK
if there are even critical flaws in Gauger’s work, the evo mat narrative cannot stand
Gordon Mullings
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