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If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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