FURTHER ISSUES IN NEUROLINGUISTIC PRECONDITIONS

This response to continuing commentary addresses brain-hand relationsh ips in Cebus apella (as introduced in Westergaard's commentary), the e volutionary and acquisition parallels between music and language (sugg ested by Lynch), and the potential behavioral linguistic consequences of the evolutionary neurobiology in Australopithecus africanus and Hom o habilis (discussed by Tobias). Finally, we reiterate the importance of well-informed, multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the eme rgence of human species-specific cognition, especially linguistic capa city.