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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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animal cognition, animal communication, animal language, animal speech, chimpanzee drumming, crow, Dan Everett, evolution, human evolution, language acquisition, linguistics, merge, Noam Chomsky, parrot, Piraha, prarie dog, Robert Berwick, science, speech, theory of mind, tool use, Why Only Us

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