5 Quotes by Dean Falk

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    If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

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    We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first year. I wanted to find out why we are the only animals that talk, and this need to pacify our babies as humans evolved may be the reason.

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    Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollars a year. And, that doesn't include a budget for large infrastructure investment.

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    The behavior of chimp mommies and babies and human mothers and infants are delightfully identical in many ways -- the gestures and the facial expressions -- but we are dramatically different in other ways,

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    The epiphany for me was that I knew chimp mommies don't make these noises, so I knew something happened during evolution,

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