Debbie Roth

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it was not the emergence of Broca’s or Wernicke’s areas that gave humans the gift of language. Perhaps human language was an elaboration on the existing system of ape communication? This might explain why these language areas are still present in other primates.
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
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