1.   The important conclusion is that some of the cognitive capacities needed for language evolved long before humans.

2.   At the same time, some advocates expect Congress to wait for science to evolve before pushing to change the law.

3.   But Hauser wanted to know whether numerical skills evolved before language.

4.   In an interview, he said that these primitive animals could well have evolved long before Archaeopteryx.

5.   Laughter may even have evolved long before primates.

6.   Other scientists note that the forests of North America evolved before people arrived on the continent.

7.   So basic numerical skills must have evolved before then, Hauser says.

8.   The animal lawyers say the idea that animals are mere property evolved centuries before modern notions of some animals as sentient beings with perceptions and even emotions.

9.   Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov had nonetheless indicated that the Russian position could evolve before then if market conditions changed considerably.