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Development of languages, language families, etc, through time with influences by other languages or pre-existing ones.
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Did a "cave man-style" language ever exist?
This is essentially the lexical protolanguage hypothesis of language evolution, favored by Derek Bickerton, Ray Jackendoff, and others. … You can find a nice discussion of this in Tecumseh Fitch's 2010 book The Evolution of Language. …