The descended larynx is not uniquely human

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1477, 2001, Pages 1669-1675

  Fitch, W T ^a   Reby, D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervid vocalization; Evolution of language; Formant frequencies; Laryngeal descent; Vocal tract elongation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HOMINID; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPEECH; STERNUM; VERTEBRATE; VETERINARY ANATOMY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERVIDAE; CERVUS DAMA; CERVUS ELAPHUS; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035934292     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1704     Document Type: Article

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