Consider this... the genome is ~725MB, and 99% percent is shared with chimpanzees, leaving ~7.25 MB for human-specific traits. While I'm sure that the mother i

Consider this... the genome is ~725MB, and 99% percent is shared with chimpanzees, leaving ~7.25 MB for human-specific traits. While I'm sure that the mother instinct is strong (and probably encoded in that 99%), it's truly amazing how little storage that is! Edit: My point is not about imprinting (which I don't claim is restricted to humans). I'm claiming that what we consider "human-specific" occupies remarkably little genetic memory. To understand how human language acquisition works with so little genetic context, we need to study humans and not NLP algorithms.