The Genetic Component of Language

Claims that language has a genetic component miss the biggest story about how we're fundamentally different to other animals. If it was just language that set us apart, why are pointing and pantomiming both unique to humans and also found across all human cultures? Well, human culture grows out of many things. Language is one of our cognitive systems. That means it certainly draws from roots which hold in other cognitive systems. At some point, it's part of the general organism. It seems to have quite unique properties that are not shared by other cognitive system.