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Language Quotes by Jane Goodall
- Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per…
- I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
- What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
- We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they…
- Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a…
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