Neandertal supralaryngeal vocal tract.
Interpretations of skeletal anatomy claiming to show that Neandertals could not have had a similar supralaryngeal vocal apparatus to that of humans are demonstrated to be flawed. Correction of the errors suggests that the Neandertal vocal apparatus need not have differed from that of recent humans.
Houghton
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Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D015186:Hominidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D009055:Mouth / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*