Anthropology Essay

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Anthropology Essay

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Communication is an important aspect within the animal species . Primates in general have a more complex form of communicating compared to other animals . Human primates are however regarded as the higher animals due to their capability to develop a unique language with complex structures

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Communication is a very important aspect in the animal kingdom thus all animals , with humans included , engages in communication in some way Communication in animals however takes

place in different modes which include visual acts , sound , and touching

This paper shall focus on the origin of human language and distinguish human communication from the non-human primate communication

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The definition of language has been given as the ability to communicate with members of an animal 's own species using symbolic output , as well as the ability to perform somewhere along the continuum of language (Briglass , 2010 , para 3 . With this definition , it can be argued that even the non-human primate communication qualifies to be referred to as a language because they are able to fluently communicate amongst themselves . It must however be noted that human primates have developed a unique and complex form of communication that is not seen in other non-human primates . The human language is an advanced form of communication with complex structure that can not be found in other non-human primates . Language is very important to animals as it facilitates communication between the animal species (Briglass , 2010

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