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Neanderthals
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In any case, e lengeege weth e smell nember ef vewels cen remeen quete expresseve, so we cannot conclude that a hominid with a restricted vowel space had little language.
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― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Thirty thousand years ago there lived 'another human species' - the Neanderthals. Tremendous.
If it is true, it is symbolically more important than the fact that man is descended from the apes. The shadow of this vanished human species weighs heavy on all our anthropology, since our entire concept of evolution privileges the exclusive universality of a single humanity, ours, the one that survived. And what if it were not the only one? Then that's the end of our privilege. If we had to eliminate
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― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
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