122. Simon Conway Morris | Complete Imponderables
Language of God
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The Evolution of Animal Language
All organisms talk. In fact, there is a roar of conversation going on between bacteria, communicating the whole time. But with regard to language, i think the essential difference is to look at forms of animal vocalization which are claimed to be akin to language. And as ever, when you look more closely, these examples of analogy seem to fail rather quickly. The most celebrated example is to do with a bird song. Now, this babbling stage has a direct counterpart to what we see in our own children. As e sort of, ou know, as a language, sort ofo burbles all over the place and ar gabbling away. We've no idea wha they're
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