How popular is Gemma? Gemma is a very popular first name for females (#1711 out of 4276, Top 40%) and also a very popular surname for both adults and children (#28049 out of 150436, Top 19%). (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
Chomsky and Gould hypothesize that language may have evolved simply because the physical structure of the brain evolved, or because cognitive structures that were used for things like tool making or rule learning were also good for complex communication.
The comparative school of linguistics, which developed after 1786 in the wake of the discovery of Indo-European, views the historical development of language as a gradual process of change, of language divergence over time. The speakers of a language spread out and become isolated from one another; dialects develop, then gradually evolve into ...