So what? Crawling came first. Scent first. Black and white vision first. As far as I know imitation(body), empathy(emotion), sympathy (mind), communication and physical transformation (tool making) all evolved in parallel because they’re all dependent upon the same faculties.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-16 21:29:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173710469183528960
Reply addressees: @Semiogogue
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@Semiogogue
@curtdoolittle Nope. I’m concerned with marks. Words only matter insofar as they’ve heretofore been considered as the standard against which all other human communciation should be judged. I hold that words are secondary and contingent, and that writing came first.
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173709402215518209
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