The book Adam's Tongue by Derek Bickerton chronicles one view of how language evolved in humans and in doing so, evolved humans along with it. It's pretty fascinating. The book explains how our brains wouldn't really have…
> 没人确切知道语言的什么特性让它如此独一无二。《Adam's Tongue》这本书深入探讨了这一点。作者从语言学角度把“Animal Communication Systems”（动物交流系统）和人类语言区分开来。在人类语言中你可以抽离出好几个特征，而这些在动物身上是绝对看不到的，……
> no one knows what exactly property of language makes it unique. The book Adam's Tongue delves into this. The author distinguishes "Animal Communication Systems" from languages by their linguistics. There are several things that you can isolate in human languages that you never see in animals,…
《Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans》这本书为我的观点提供了有力的论据。它仔细审视了动物交流系统与我们人类语言之间的区别，从各种原始……
The book Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans makes a cogent argument for my position. It examines carefully the difference between Animal Communication Systems and our own, in all the variety primitive…
关于这个话题已经有海量的研究了。我读过一本关于这个主题的科普（popsci）书叫《Adam's Tongue》。它详细阐述了把所谓的“Animal Communication Systems”（动物交流系统）与人类语言区分开来的各种特征。https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language-ebo... 很显然，宠物是完全有能力……
There has been a LOT of research on this. A popsci book I've read on the topic is Adam's Tongue. It details the features that separate what's called Animal Communication Systems from human language. https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language-ebo... Obviously pets are quite capable…
…education and work in general is unlikely to increase our IQ. Derek Bickerton, sometime co-author of the article's referenced William Calvin, believes that we may already be going the other way. In his book "Adam's Tongue" he points out how, over time, humans are becoming eerily similar to ants or termites, He also notes that it takes about 40 generations for a wolf to become a domesticated dog-like animal and that the…
Derek Bickerton 写的《Adam's Tongue》记录了一种观点：语言如何在人类身上演化，并在演化过程中顺便把人类本身也给演化了。相当引人入胜。书中解释了我们的大脑原本根本不可能……
The book Adam's Tongue by Derek Bickerton chronicles one view of how language evolved in humans and in doing so, evolved humans along with it. It's pretty fascinating. The book explains how our brains wouldn't really have…
> 没人确切知道语言的什么特性让它如此独一无二。《Adam's Tongue》这本书深入探讨了这一点。作者从语言学角度把“Animal Communication Systems”（动物交流系统）和人类语言区分开来。在人类语言中你可以抽离出好几个特征，而这些在动物身上是绝对看不到的，……
> no one knows what exactly property of language makes it unique. The book Adam's Tongue delves into this. The author distinguishes "Animal Communication Systems" from languages by their linguistics. There are several things that you can isolate in human languages that you never see in animals,…
《Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans》这本书为我的观点提供了有力的论据。它仔细审视了动物交流系统与我们人类语言之间的区别，从各种原始……
The book Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans makes a cogent argument for my position. It examines carefully the difference between Animal Communication Systems and our own, in all the variety primitive…
关于这个话题已经有海量的研究了。我读过一本关于这个主题的科普（popsci）书叫《Adam's Tongue》。它详细阐述了把所谓的“Animal Communication Systems”（动物交流系统）与人类语言区分开来的各种特征。https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language-ebo... 很显然，宠物是完全有能力……
There has been a LOT of research on this. A popsci book I've read on the topic is Adam's Tongue. It details the features that separate what's called Animal Communication Systems from human language. https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Tongue-Humans-Made-Language-ebo... Obviously pets are quite capable…
……通常来说，受教育和工作不太可能提高我们的 IQ。文章中提到的 William Calvin 有时会与 Derek Bickerton 合著，Bickerton 认为我们可能已经在走下坡路了。在他的《Adam's Tongue》一书中，他指出随着时间的推移，人类正变得出奇地像蚂蚁或白蚁。他还指出，狼变成类似家犬的动物大约需要 40 代的时间，而……
…education and work in general is unlikely to increase our IQ. Derek Bickerton, sometime co-author of the article's referenced William Calvin, believes that we may already be going the other way. In his book "Adam's Tongue" he points out how, over time, humans are becoming eerily similar to ants or termites, He also notes that it takes about 40 generations for a wolf to become a domesticated dog-like animal and that the…