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Anatomical studies compared the vocal tracts and skulls of immature and mature humans
with those of other species and with the fossil skulls of ancestral human forms. The
results offered an explanation of human vocal tract evolution and its possible relationship
to the evolution of speech, language, and conceptual thought.
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Reference
- The human vocal tract: anatomy, function, development and evolution.in: Vantage Press, New York1987: 1-265
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© 1989 Raven Press, Ltd., New York. Published by Elsevier Inc.
