Laughter developed, he writes in "Laughter: A Scientific Investigation" (Viking, 2000), before language, and was the result not of jest, but of fear, giddiness, disappointment -- a passing mammoth.
Importantly, however – as has been pointed out before – language is just the visible surface of a deeper discrimination, so tacking language alone can never be the full solution.
Color has often been described as belonging to a primitive world that was here before language or line and that cannot be tamed by it.
Certain species of monkeys also babble, said Dr. John L. Locke, a specialist in the biology of human communication at New York University, and this suggests that babbling evolved well before language did.
"The feeling is that whoever it is that is singing has not simply abandoned language, but has returned himself to a time before language, and is now groping towards it".
McBride has described her style as "attempting to tell a story from a point so far back in the mind that it is completely experiential, completely gut-reactive and balancing on the moment just before language becomes formatted thought".
