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Published on: June 21, 2014
[To eat, to breath, to cry, to speak, to sing, the zoological language epopee]
1Professeur honoraire de chirurgie maxillo-faciale de l'enfant, Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité. Directeur honoraire de l'Institut d'embryologie cellulaire et moléculaire du CNRS et du Collège de France. Institut de la vision, Inserm UMRS 968, 17 rue Moreau, 75012 Paris, France - Sorbonne Université, Paris 06, France.
Abstract:
The language emergence during the last one million years is the success of the use of oral nutritive and breathing functional organs, which existed several hundred million years ago. But two new neurogenomic innovations were also necessary: The genesis of pneumo-laryngo-glossal Broca praxic area, associated to FOXP2 gene, and the brain connectome. The last one has connected, thanks to its network, the Broca area to these two vital functions, feeding orality and respiration, by using their motor pyramidal and cortico-nuclear ways already constituted. These connections have given the language its efficiency of sonor laryngeal emission and oral articulation. The baby cry precedes from 18 months the language beginning, and is produced by the same motor neurologic connectomic organization that future language. To eat, to breath, and to cry, to speak, to sing constitute a neuro-functional and temporal filiation of Evolution since the first early vertebrates. To eat, then to breath, then to cry have constituted the language founding parentage.
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