Dean Falk Quotations

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first year. I wanted to find out why we are the only animals that talk, and this need to pacify our babies as humans evolved may be the reason.

Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollars a year. And, that doesn't include a budget for large infrastructure investment.

The behavior of chimp mommies and babies and human mothers and infants are delightfully identical in many ways -- the gestures and the facial expressions -- but we are dramatically different in other ways,

The epiphany for me was that I knew chimp mommies don't make these noises, so I knew something happened during evolution,