What makes us so "special"?

Hanna
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:24:07 +0000

“we aren’t the only species who uses language for communication”

Yes, we are. We aren’t the only species that uses abstract sounds for communication. There are even a few species that have an elementary sort of syntax. But every human language is immensely more malleable, complex, and figurative than that. It really is special.