In case anyone is ever curious: Here's a paper I wrote my last year at Oberlin College about the evolution of human language. It summarizes a lot of scientific literature suggesting that human speech evolved from hand gestures, as well as talking about genes likely involved in human speech. It mentions Chomsky, Pinker, and many more...

I've been getting back into neurolinguistics lately as I return to working on Colingo and realized that I had never made this paper publicly available. Let me know if you find it interesting!