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Hearing, I would think.
Hearing. Hearing is possessed by a massive variety of organisms which don't have any form of verbal communication.
Which organism, I couldn't tell you. Some kind of ancestral fish.
And which organism first to evolve the ability to produce sound ?
It would have to be hearing. "Speaking" is defined as follows, "the action of conveying information or expressing one's thoughts and feelings in spoken language." Since "spoken language" only applies to human beings (no other organism/species has the abilty to express their thoughts and feelings using spoken language), and hearing applies to any organism that can sense sound, hearing would have had to come millions, if not billions of years before speaking.Which first evolved and which organism ?
Every organism produces sound. Most of them just do it too quietly for us to hear. Sound is vibration.
That is kind of a trick question. The term "communicate" requires that another organism is able to "hear" it. So, sound had to of come first.I mean producing sound to communicate, which was first organism that evolved to produce sounds after possessing the ability to hear
That is kind of a trick question. The term "communicate" requires that another organism is able to "hear" it. So, sound had to of come first.
The first organism to communicate through sound would have been either an anthropod or an insect, I believe.
Fossil records present evidence. Also logical deductions using evolutinoNo evidence for which was the first organism to evolve with the ability to produce sound as means of communication.
Good one ... very topical.Speaking. Still waiting for hearing to evolve.
No evidence for which was the first organism to evolve with the ability to produce sound as means of communication.
Do you think that a lack of available evidence to show conclusively what was the first animal to gain the ability to hear/speak is important? I mean, even if there was evidence somewhere out there, why would scientists waste their time looking for it?No evidence for which was the first organism to evolve with the ability to produce sound as means of communication.
Fossil records present evidence. Also logical deductions using evolutino
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Do you think that a lack of available evidence to show conclusively what was the first animal to gain the ability to hear/speak is important? I mean, even if there was evidence somewhere out there, why would scientists waste their time looking for it?
Again, I'm not a scientist, so my background in this subject is pretty lacking, but I would assume that they could find indications of sound-making in bone structures of currently existing organisms and compare them with the fossils of ancient extinct organisms and figure out what most likely was the first organism to be able to communicate through sound. What is your issue? It desn't need to be proof positive or anything ... a question like this would be answered by a "best guess," as is often the case in scientific research/understanding.What the fossils says about hearing and producing sounds for communication ?
Would you please clarify what did they find out ?
You mean, as in eyewitnesses? I suppose not. Nor would it be reasonable to expect any.No evidence for which was the first organism to evolve with the ability to produce sound as means of communication.
Oh, well of course there are scientists who have nailed down the progression of this aspect of evolution. I just feel that knowing the first organism is not that important. The progression of vocal evolution is what they would be interested in. In other words, how organisms got better and better at communication, and what specific changes/mutations caused this to happen.I think it's important in order to know how we got it ? how it started and how it evolved by nature ?, speaking science.