Big Brain: Why Chimpanzees Can’t Give Lectures: The Evolution of Human Speech

Big Brain: Why Chimpanzees Can’t Give Lectures: The Evolution of Human Speech at Madrone Art Bar. 🗣️ Why can humans give speeches, while our closest primate relatives can’t speak the way we do? ​The answer does not begin with the mouth, or even the brain, but with a seemingly unrelated change in how our ancestors walked through the world. This talk traces the evolutionary journey that restructured the human respiratory system […] \n