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“Perhaps the most striking aspect of this entire subject is that there are nonhuman primates so close to the edge of language, so willing to learn, so entirely competent in its use and inventive in its application once the language is taught. But this raises a curious question: Why are they all on the edge? Why are there no nonhuman primates with an existing complex gestural language? One possible answer, it seems to me, is that humans have systematically exterminated those other primates who displayed signs of intelligence.”
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Carl Sagan
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