6.0131 In terms of our present
day evolutionary timescale the
emergence of
Homo Loquens
could have only occurred
sometime between the
appearance of
Homo Sapiens
in Africa
200,000 years ago and
Cultural artifacts in so called
Europe
30,000 years ago

6.0132 According to Chomsky
Homo Loquens differs from his
dumb forefathers and primate
cousins by acting as a carrier
for a set of
genes that encodes
the Syntactical Rules for
all Natural Languages

 

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