The Origins of Language

It seems like language probably had a huge part in it, right? The ability to represent ideas as symbols that could be transmitted from one to another. I think about the monkey who's developing tools for the first time and how many seconds before the other monkeys go, I see what's going on here. And so if you're the only monkey in a place and you see something, and you try to communicate it to somebody, and they're like, I don't really see the point of that, then it's never going to go anywhere. As long as you can communicate the idea and then get somebody to believe in it, then you hit the transition point of this has legs. But

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