Re: Fwd: Did language drive society or vice versa?

From: Chuck Palson (cpalson@mediaone.net)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 16:07:17 BST

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    I'm not sure how to take your statement. But Wilson at Harvard would
    certainly agree that the appearance of homo sapiens took some improbable
    events to happen. After all, when we look at the complexity of an
    evolutionary product, part of our wonder is produced by seeing how totally
    improbable things get linked together in the process.

    "Wade T.Smith" wrote:

    > On 05/09/00 09:42, Chuck Palson said this-
    >
    > >the study of the evolution of life is about improbable things. Just
    > >because it happened once doesn't mean it will happen again.
    >
    > There is a lot of activity around Harvard these days with animal language
    > studies, but not to discount your statement.
    >
    > I do wonder, however, if such an animal as the human could happen any
    > other way than through language? I am assuming, with all seriousness,
    > that the physical reality of the universe precludes telepathy.
    >
    > - Wade
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