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Blame the Babies: How Infants Sparked Human Speech

The Next Big Idea Daily

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This chapter explores the fascinating ties between early human parenting and the evolution of language. It emphasizes how the demands of caring for helpless infants played a crucial role in the development of our sophisticated communication skills through evolutionary accidents.

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