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Or perhaps the other way around: we are social because we have language.
by crthpl 4y ago
Or perhaps the other way around: we are social because we have language.
- slothtrop 4y agoYou think language would spontaneously evolve without a disposition to socialize a-priori? That doesn't make any sense.
- shrimpx 4y agoPresumably we needed to “notice” an orange in a tree before we could point to it. Before you could communicate with signs, you could probably realize something equivalent to “that’s food”, despite not having language yet.