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It's not just you, there's an entire community of people who have decided that four sentences of introduction is too much--Twitter. Writing that not only is ae
by kerkeslager 6y ago
It's not just you, there's an entire community of people who have decided that four sentences of introduction is too much--Twitter.
Writing that not only is aesthetic but informative, is exactly what I want here.
> Is this what Smithsonian readers want? To feel like they read about science but not actually have done so?
That's simply not true, this article is definitely about science.
> Plus I’m still curious about what we’ve actually learned from this about the nature of language.
Then you'd have to read more than four sentences of the article.
"To some scientists, Kanzi’s intellectual feats demonstrated clearly that language was not unique to human beings."
"The controversy masked an uncomfortable truth: No one agreed on what the difference between language and communication actually was."
The article then goes on to describe a wide variety of events which explain what happened with the Bonobos, highlighting events which might be indicators of discoveries and difficulties with collecting scientific observations about Bonobos and language/communication.
- gumby 6y agoThere’s a tremendous amount of such work not just in various primates but non-primates such as birds, prarie dogs etc (not to mention a spectrum way down to more autonomic systems such as eusocial insects and biofilms). I didn’t see much science discussion at all in proportion to the filler. (As a side point: though I disagree with you it seems unfair that you are being downvoted (your post is greyed to me). I gave it an upvote — hth)