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Blame the Babies: How Infants Sparked Human Speech

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The Evolutionary Dance of Infants and Language

This chapter delves into the connection between DNA organization and key human evolutionary traits, using early hominins as a case study. It emphasizes how adaptations for upright walking and childbirth challenges influenced the development of language and social cooperation.

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