What makes us human? And what makes us individuals? Can we maintain our individuality when we’re hard wired to belong to a group? We used to think our ability to use tools separated us from the animal kingdom. Now we know many animals are very clever and use tools. We thought it was language that made us ‘more’ special than animals (like that’s even possible) but we’re discovering incredible things about animals’ use of language. Sure we walk upright and have more dexterity in our hands, and through hundreds of thousands of years of evolution we can vocalize sounds that enable the development
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