Derek Bickerton (1995) and Charles Catania (1995) object to the suggestion that early humans had language. Bickerton writes, “If H. habilis already had all the necessary ingredients for language, what happened during the next million years?” And Catania writes, “I [deduce] that our hominin ancestors should have taken over the world 950,000 years ago if a million years ago they were really like us in their language competence. But they did not, so they were not; if they had been, those years would have been historic instead of prehistoric.” How do you think Bart DeBoer would respond to Bickerton and Catania? Who do you think is right?
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