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This chapter continues the theme of human embodiment in the world, moving beyond language to groundedness, by which I mean the connection an animal has to the ground, dirt, the earth. Humans, in the course of their evolution, stood up and left the ground, a copious source of information and enrichment.
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Gee, J.P. (2020). Specific Universals. In: What Is a Human?. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50382-6_18
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