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Humans Learned to Talk by Copying Birds and Monkeys, Linguists Claim
Humans learned to talk to one another by copying birds and other primates sometime in the last 100,000 years, experts have said. Linguists from MIT suggest that human communication could have evolved from older systems used by birds and primates. Previous research has found that humans derive the melodic part of language from birds. However, the authors also say we evolved our pragmatic content-carrying part of speech from other primates.
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The monkey in the picture is saying,I can't believe we did this!
He looks pissed haha