Brain and BehaviorBrain Development |
Is there evidence of language in hominid skulls? |
Indentations on the inside of Homo habilis skulls (Homo habilis lived about two million years ago) suggest an enlarged area around the location of Broca’s area, a central region for speech production in modern humans. While we cannot know if this area was connected to speech in Homo habilis brains, we can suggest that at least a precursor to modern language regions of the brain was present at a very early point in hominid evolution.