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Darwin's last word: How words changed cognition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2008
Abstract
Although Penn et al. make a good case for the existence of deep cognitive discontinuity between humans and animals, they fail to explain how such a discontinuity could have evolved. It is proposed that until the advent of words, no species had mental representations over which higher-order relations could be computed.
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