>Monkeys could talk but they don't have the brains for

Article:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/09/504890630/say-what-monkey-mouths-and-throats-are-equipped-for-speech

Very creepy simulation of what monkey speech might sound like at the end.

>>8528303
>Is human language basically made up entirely of a handful of different kinds of grunts and clicks, strung together into sentences?

Short answer, pretty much.

People have a weird misconception about evolution, but it's understandable. They think that evolution happens for a purpose, when in reality, it's just a simple mechanism.

Take a common example. There's a population of giraffes, but due to an environment change, the leaves towards the bottoms of trees are becoming more sparse. Most people would think the giraffes would evolve longer necks to make up for it, but the reality of it is that some random mutation happens, and regardless of the side effects, if it allows the genetically mutated giraffe with a longer neck to live til they can copulate, then that gene gets passed down. It could very well be that that giraffe or its kids gets killed in a freak accident, and then the population doesn't evolve. Or, they outcompete the others and soon the genetic makeup is only the longer necks.

In this case, the ability to communicate didn't evolve in humans so they could speak more, it just happened as a consequence of the ability to communicate in some way or another through sound was environmentally advantageous. Such a thing isn't hard to believe that it was that way before the population that would evolve to become humans was around.

>>8528310
Sounds like someone is choking

>>8528303
Wow. We should try hooking up a human's brain to monkey muscles and see if they can make it talk.
We could use monkeys as surrogates for an irl MMORPG.

>>8528329
>irl MMORPG
Just when I thought MMORPGs couldn't be more evil...

>>8528329
>use monkeys as surrogates for an irl MMORPG.
the largest brazilian server you've ever seen

>>8528303

This is pretty offensive, just because you're black doesn't mean you're too dumb to learn proper English. Ebonix type slang is a natural part of the evolution of linguistics.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z0xn4pYSY

>the woman in the video sounds like a mother talking to her mentally handicapped son.

>>8528393
You're right, I apologize. Linguistics must be decolonized.

Actually, they do have some elements of language. Some researchers studied their language and they were able to "speak" monkey in a sense.

Here's a video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1TkTq8WAY

>>8528303
language is a lot more than just sounds.

>>8528303
>>Monkeys are found to have the necessary vocal equipment to vocalize almost all the sounds humans can
Where did you hear that?

>within the next 50 years, someone might use the crispr meme on monkeys to fill in the gaps of the brain wiring with wiring made possible from added human genetic code and make them start talking
>they will finally have the vocal motor control to speak to us, but still be 20 times stronger than us
What a time to be alive

>>8528677
It's not a question about language itself, and all it entails, but rather just the physical mechanism by which we produce the sounds that we use for communication.

>>8528686
>>8528310

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>>8528686

>Where did you hear that?

How did you make it this long in modern civilization without knowing how to use Google?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=monkeys+could+talk

>>8528310
The happy holidays one sounds like a french robot

>>8528781
>Is human language basically made up entirely of a handful of different kinds of grunts and clicks, strung together into sentences
The way it's worded it sounds like a question about language. But if it's just a question about the properties of speech sounds, then yeah, they're just what we happened to be able to produce when language evolved. That doesn't mean those sounds don't have complex or interesting properties that can shed light on aspects of the human mind.

>>8528391
i lol'd

>>8528391
huaheaehuhuehuaheuae

>giving some chimp that can rip off your arm in one single pull the ability to talk
No, we cannot do this.

>>8528391
I HUE'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3n_NsvGZSg

>>8529459
Oh man.
I played this when I was like 11 and the brazilian hate came from this game. The brazilians were (and probably still are) fucking cancer in this game.

>>8528393
How does this sentence relate to the OP?

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>>8529554

>>8528393
top lel fuk u kkk