Frank Brown Cloud

chimpanzee drumming

On animals that speak, including humans.

Tom Wolfe & Noam Chomsky both claim that no other animals are capable of anything like human speech … while scientists are finally learning to listen.

September 29, 2017

Frank Brown Cloud

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