(Professor Donald Ringe, U. of Pennsylvania, is interviewed on this point.) Most linguists believe language cannot be traced back more than 10,000...

(Professor Donald Ringe, U. of Pennsylvania, is interviewed on this point.) Most linguists believe language cannot be traced back more than 10,000 years at the most. What about fossil remains indicating 3 that anatomically modern humans lived as long ago as 100,000 years. Can the fossil record shed any light on the question of when language originally evolved?