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The Evolution Of 	 Intelligence, Language And Evolution, Brain and Mind
 









Abstract: Despite all differences that
separate humans from other animals, especially non-human primates,
it is the capacity for symbolic language (…) there are
enormous differences in the complexity of human symbolic language
and it cannot be explained by a simple increase in volume of
neural tissue.
Excerpt: (…) higher cognitive functions in man are
determined by our brain's unique capacity for symbolic
representation. (…) language is not only a mean of
communication, but it is the essential basis of human
consciousness.>
The uppermost and most complex aspects of language, which are
meaning and grammar, seem to be uniquely human.


The
Evolution Of Intelligence,(Part 5) Language And
Evolution,
Renato
M.E. Sabbatini, Brain and
Mind, Number 13 ( August - November 2001).

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