According to These Researchers, Language Originated Around the Campfire, and Not During the Hunt.

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Our language may not have originated during hunting or the making of tools. New research suggests that human language only took shape...

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We all recognize the capacity of a bonfire to prolong the conversation when the night falls: it gathers the group, concentrates the attention and seems to invite to tell stories. A new research measured the changing rhythm of the flames and discovered frequencies close to certain brain rhythms and human language. And it concludes that fire, by hindering remote gestural communication and offering a shared visual stimulus, could favor oral narrati…