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It Seems Inconceivable That A Species Of Human Could Possess Fully Modern Language And Not Be Fully Modern In All Other Ways, Too. For This Reason, The Evolution Of Language Is Widely Judged To Be The Culminating Event In The Emergence Of Humanity As We Know It Today.
-Richard Leakey
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It Seems Inconceivable That A Species Of

Richard Leakey
It Seems Inconceivable That A Species Of Human Could Possess Fully Modern Language And Not Be Fully Modern In All Other Ways, Too. For This Reason, The Evolution Of Language Is Widely Judged To Be The Culminating Event In The Emergence Of Humanity As We Know It Today.
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