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Question about the Chimpanzees?

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11-09-2006 12:28 AM 		Reply to: Message 4 by nwr
11-09-2006 12:15 AM

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Humans appear to be built (i.e. to have evolved) to acquire language in early childhood. If you were to start a colony without a language, the children in that colony would soon invent their own language.
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Just to reinforce this point, deaf children in Nicaragua appear to have invented their own sign language without any known external influence. I believe that was on 60 Minutes a few years ago.
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