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What's really fascinating is wild chimps use a rich form of communication that's far from an actual language. But, they can be trained use complex sign langue which they will then use to communicate with each other. So, language may have developed fairly rapidly relative to the underlying biology.


No, they can't be trained. Those studies were largely failures and the idea that they can be trained is little more than a myth.




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