This is the last of a series of 5 presentations concerning what makes language unusual. This post examines why the differences between language and other forms of animal communication matters.
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- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
- Einstein Defiant: Genius vs Genius in the Quantum Revolution
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