ocr: cord could not have carried enough nerve: tissue for him to control his breathing as well as modern humans. Linking words into long sentences would have been impossible. "That doesn'tmean he couldn'thave: made meaningful utterances, " says Ann MacLar- non, an anthropologist at Roehampton Insti- tute London, who first connected the small hole in the boy's vertebra with his ability to control breathing. "With simple grunts and sounds you can communicate al lot," she says. "But he couldn'ti have produced: anything like modern. human speech." NE REASON some scientists believe Homo crecius could co ...
