This is the reason why we can now pronounce 'F' and 'V' sounds

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Changes to the human diet prompted by Neolithic advances in agriculture played a role in human jaw evolution that allowed people to pronounce the consonants F and V, researchers say.

Their work -- which combines linguistics, speech science and paleoanthropology and appears in the Thursday edition of the-- indicates that language is not merely a random product of history but was also linked to biological changes at the time.

"If you think about it, however, this is a bit strange actually, because like the communication system of other animals, language is simply part of our nature," he stressed. If you pull in your lower jaw until your upper and lower teeth touch each other, and then try to pronounce "f" and "v", it's very difficult.

"And an important thing here was the spread of pottery for preserving food, something that became very important with the introduction of agriculture."

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