>In the meantime, I'd point out that the difference between "rudimentary
>language"/ "limited signaling of some animals" and human language has not
>been qualitatively or functionally distinguished in any real scientific
>sense.
What really doesn't make sense is this lingering notion that language
could possibly have "exploded" into existence. Anybody who takes just
five minutes to think about it should finally realize that this is
just not possible for a multitude of reasons. Language formed in a
slow evolutionary process over tens of thousands of years. Why are
we still hoping and praying for some magic "explosion"? As a species,
we seem to need some magical, non-existent past to glorify our existence.
Why is that?
- gLeN
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