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She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. "Misanthrope" is so...more

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Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's fr...more

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No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely ...more

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But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and ha...more

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Human spoken language seems to beadventitious. The exploitation of organ systems with other functions for communication in humans is also indicative o...more

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I would expect a significant development and elaboration of language in only a few generations if all the chimps unable to communicate were to die or ...more

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Our difficulties in understanding or effectuatingcommunication with other animals may arise from our reluctance to grasp unfamiliar ways of dealing wi...more

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Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no o...more

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In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition...more

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One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies...more