<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lieberman, P</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Comment on &quot;Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready&quot;</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sci Adv</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jul</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695209</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">e1700442</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2375-2548</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Monkey vocal tracts are capable of producing monkey speech, not the full range of articulate human speech. The evolution of human speech entailed both anatomy and brains. Fitch, de Boer, Mathur, and Ghazanfar in Science Advances claim that &quot;monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready,&quot; and conclude that &quot;…the evolution of human speech capabilities required neural change rather than modifications of vocal anatomy.&quot; Neither premise is consistent either with the data presented and the conclusions reached by de Boer and Fitch themselves in their own published papers on the role of anatomy in the evolution of human speech or with the body of independent studies published since the 1950s.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28695209</style></accession-num><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.</style></auth-address></record></records></xml>