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Re: lexicon

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Sunday, June 1, 2003, 14:26
>The *ability* to communicate must have preceded culture, because there can >be >no culture without communication. But since there can be no communication >without someone to communicate with, actual communication and culture >probably developed about the same time.
Depends on what you mean by culture. There is (was?) a hypothesis that language developed because anthropoid groups grew too large for the group members to all engage in mutual grooming. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail