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Does language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer Ackerman

Philosophy For Our Times

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We're Not a Really Capable of Entering the Minds of Other Creatures

I think we have underestimated the complexity of communication in other species, and that were, you know, we're beginning to understand what we don't understand. And i used the example of the new holland honey eater, which, um has been studied in great detail with a mean, meticulous studies. But we really don't know what the full range of complexity is,. I think it's somewhere, yes, somewhere in between bees and humans. Although i think,you know, bees have a lot more going on than we give them credit for, too.

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