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Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689

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If I read one more story beginning with "Neanderthal voice heard for the first time in 30,000 years" I'm stabbing someone.

Speaking of which, the voice of Neanderthals has been heard for the first time in 30,000 years.

I haven't been able to find a recording so I assume they never released one, but it's a cool thing to have simulated. Coincidentally, right after I read somewhere else that there was controversy over whether Neanderthals could speak until a hyoid bone was found in one of the skeletons.

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Sean
First Tenor
Member # 2010

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Sounds like a fart.

http://media.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn13672A1.wav

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Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689

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Aw, man. If they really sounded like that, that's like...Abe Lincoln turning out to sound like Joan Rivers.

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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

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No, Lincoln had a shrilly high-pitched voice. I'm not sure if that's better or not.

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Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
Member # 1689

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I've heard that, but I've never actually read that. Was it noted in some biography somewhere?

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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

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Y'know, I'm not really sure where I first heard it. A Google search for "abraham lincoln voice" turns up a couple references, but that doesn't really mean anything. Hopefully, now that I said it, it won't turn out to be one of those things you always hear which aren't actually true.

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Sean
First Tenor
Member # 2010

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This is the normal human simulation making the same sound/vowel.

http://media.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn13672A2.wav

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Kosh
Perpetual Member
Member # 167

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results for a google search on "abraham lincoln voice" without the marks.

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS271&q=abraham+lincoln+voice&btnG=Google+Search

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