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The shared evolutionary history of kinship classifications and language
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2010
Abstract
Among monkeys and apes, both the recognition and classification of individuals and the recognition and classification of vocalizations constitute discrete combinatorial systems. One system maps onto the other, suggesting that during human evolution kinship classifications and language shared a common cognitive precursor.
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