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This is a far cry from making sounds (including with a kazoo) that the "researchers" want in order to obtain rewards. Then these owlhoots have the temerity to claim that they are getting insights into evolution. Like yesterday, materialists seem desperate to cling to evolutionism instead of giving credit to our Creator and admitting that there is no evidence for evolution — despite smoke and mirrors in word games and overhyped fake news. Unfortunately, it deceives the gullible who crave "evidence" for evolution.
To read the rest of this article, swing on over to "Orangutan mutter — Now we know how speech evolved, or do we?"Knobi and Rocky are two of a number of orangutans (Pongo sp.) that have been involved in speech experiments running for many years. Knobi, a female, was born on 30 September 1979. Rocky is an adolescent male, born on 25 September 2004. Recently (August 2019), it was suggested that their latest vocalisations “could advance the understanding of (spoken) language evolution”. Let us examine these claims.A few years earlier, a paper in Scientific Reports reported evidence for “dynamic and interactive vocal fold control” in Rocky. BBC Earth excitedly reported that he had “become the first to mimic human speech”. Essentially this consisted of ‘do-as-I-do’, when researchers changed their tone or pitch. The orangutan mimics the human being who in turn hands out an edible reward for each similarly-sounding grunt—the video clip is very telling.
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