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To the inarticulateness of nature (wo)man has added a new dimension—speech. S/He is the only creature who talks, in the sense of using a shared set of abstract rules for creating and communicating ideas about the world. Hence, it has more than once been suggested that, instead of being called by that oafishly arrogant, prematurely self-bestowed name Homo sapiens, s/he would be more accurately described as Homo loquens.
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Montagu, A. (1983). Toolmaking, Hunting, and the Origin of Language. In: Bain, B. (eds) The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1525-2_1
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