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

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 17:51:55 BST

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    On 05/11/00 11:50, Bruce Jones said this-

    >Which came first the chicken or the egg?

    Or the question is more, can chickens have societies? It is, um,
    fashionable (to a degree matched only by the age of one's Birkenstocks)
    to point to animal societies.

    But, I remain, Rockported, and say pish-tosh- fanciful anthropomorphism,
    at best....

    - Wade

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