The complexities of modern human language only evolved once we had interesting things to talk about, and found out how to do so in an abstract way. Henry Gee musters his morphemes.
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Nowak, M.A., Plotkin, J.B. & Jansen, V.A. The evolution of syntactic communication. Nature 404, 495 2000.
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Gee, H. Speaking in syntactical tongues. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000030-10
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