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The Evolution of Language

slavoy jijak has talked about this in different places but there is um... one of i think this comes from evolutionary psychology. There's a very ideological assumption that language developed as a way to communicate and people get it, he says. "There's nothing seemingly controversial about that they get it," Jijak adds. 'It's really funny that like the the rev the revolutionaries that were again idea of darwin is that accidents yield unexpected advantages'

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