Summary on Grunts to Grammar

Miller, Jeanne.

"From Grunts to Geammar: The Evolution of Language.
" Odyssey: Adventures to science

Oct. 2009: 34,35,36. Print. 

This week in Humanities, we read an article about the development of grammar.  Grammar is so important to our everyday life.   Could you imagine life without words?  Grammar has developed over millions of years.  The development started when the larynx or voice box moved down deeper in our ancestor’s throats.  There is no way to exactly find out when or where grammar started.  As it says in the article, “Spoken words don’t leave fossils.”  Scientist do have theories.  They have looked at different fossils of our ancestors and from that they analyze which things such as tools may have required advanced communication to make.  The first evidence of what scientists think needed complex communication was bones found in Australia.  Scientists know that early humans must have migrated from Asia.  To get to Australia they had to go at least 45 miles by boat.   Early humans had to build that boat and building that type of boat would have needed verbal communication. Scientists have come to a conclusion that grammar was formed 35-40 thousand years ago.  Before grammar was formed our early ancestors must have had to communicate in some sort way before words where formed.   Scientists think these ways where sounds, hand motions, and even facial expressions. In conclusion, I think grammar is one of the most important things in our everyday lives and we would struggle without it.