The motor hypothesis of language states that:

A. the motor skills necessary for language only evolved with H. sapiens
B. all hominins would have been capable of language
C. the complex skills needed to manufacture tools led directly to the motor skills needed to produce speech
D. the rearrangement of the skeleton for erect bipedalism led to the motor skills needed to produce speech


C. the complex skills needed to manufacture tools led directly to the motor skills needed to produce speech

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