It is a fact that in our time, 28 000 years after the disappearance of the Neanderthals,
the modern human is the only species on Earth possessing language. Clearly, we are
the only species with sufficient anatomical prerequisites for language learning, but
linguists disagree about our degree of anatomical specialization for language.
Some linguists claim that the reason why humans are the only possessors of
language is that we have an innate language capacity. Others claim that the reason is
our general cognitive capacities, which surpass those of all other species