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Anthropology

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5. Awesome article

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 07:11 AM

Feb 2021

We had to have evolved a certain brain capacity, hearing and voice box for it first, wouldn’t we? Then my thought is that was used in all the ways they mentioned. And things that maintained group cohesion were necessary for survival, IMO. (All hands on deck here comes a cave bear!)

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