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Study pushes back evolution of speech by 20,000 years

Press Trust of India
December 15, 2019 00:00 IST
Updated: December 15, 2019 03:51 IST
Press Trust of India
December 15, 2019 00:00 IST
Updated: December 15, 2019 03:51 IST

Researchers have shown that monkeys produce well-differentiated proto-vowels, an advance that pushes back earlier estimates of when speech evolved in animals by about 2,00,000 years.

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