How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? A view from the womb

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Unsolved Mysteries discuss a topic of biological importance that is poorly understood and in need of research attention.

Alexis Hervais-Adelman ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: alexis.hervais-adelman@unige.ch

Affiliations Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Zurich Centre for Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-626X

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Simon W. Townsend

Affiliations Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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