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Originally posted by tigmeister: ↑

Human language is fundamentally different in that it could be used to deceive, so another species like a gorilla or a chimpanzee would ignore such a sound precisely because it cannot be counted on. And there is the proof, human language capacity can only have arisen in egalitarian hunter gatherer society where there was trust in one another. There is nothing like that in any other primate group.

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What is that proof, specifically, that "human language capacity can only have arisen in egalitarian hunter gatherer society where there was trust in one another?"
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