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Lulu Miller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2116 total appearances

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Little bits of cartilage appear on it and so do these folds.

John says all of this means that the voice is becoming more and more of a tool for those things that drive evolution.

Like asserting dominance, fighting off rivals, showing affection, wooing mates.

The voice starts communicating basic emotions.

And the other thing is that mammals.

The way that their young feed is on.

is an amazing system of muscles in the mammalian face and throat and tongue.

And so if you're an animal with a big complex brain, John says you can start doing things like... Hitting the tongue against the back of the teeth for tuh and duh.

Or holding them closed for a mmm.

Or you can start making ha, he, he.

It's literally the posture and shape of the tongue.

It's over 400 million years.

That open and closable slit.