Michael Pollak wrote:
>
>> But if, for the fun of it, you want to try and find a single thing that
> humans have that no other animal has, I'm surprised nobody has yet
> volunteered the one that Doug suggested at the very beginning of this
> thread, namely language.
>
That works for what we are now, but Iwould assume that homo sapiens
sapiens firs exissted without language. For that purpose you would have
to say "capacity for language" is the species trait, not langauge
itself.
Carrol