Did we learn speech from the apes?

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Did we learn to speak by mimicking apes? Early language may have been formed by combining the noises of primates and birds | Mail Online

Linguists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim that early humans evolved the content-carrying part of our speech from primates
People living 100,000 years ago got the melodic part of our language by copying birdsong, previous research suggests
Together, these two inspirations combine to create the form of human language that we know today, they claim

Fascinating.

Much more at the link.