Fascinating and encouraging article on language in other beings and what language actually is. Researchers “theorized that one of the most confounding aspects of language, its rules-based internal structure, emerged from social drives common across a range of species. With each discovery, the cognitive and moral divide between humanity and the rest of the animal world has eroded.” Gorgeous illustrations too.
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