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    Challenges→Whatever enables humans to learn and use language would have been subjected to strong positive selection pressure once it began to emerge in the human species.

    A trait conferring diffuse group benefits without fine-grained individual heritable variation may not face 'strong positive selection' in the technically precise population-genetic sense.

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    Heritable variation(as used in genetics and heredity)
    Differences between individuals that can be passed down through genes from parents to children, rather than caused by environment or choice.
    Trait(what feedback mechanisms select for)
    A characteristic or feature of something, especially a quality that exists because it's been selected for or favored in some way.
    diffuse group benefits(as used in evolutionary biology)
    Advantages that spread across many members of a group rather than concentrating on just one or a few individuals.
    fine-grained(Ontology of properties and criteria of individuation)
    Descriptive of individuation criteria or entities that make more distinctions; hyperintensional conditions are paradigmatically fine-grained
    population-genetic sense

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    (as used in evolutionary biology)
    Using the specific technical definitions and mathematical frameworks that biologists use to study how genes change in populations.
    positive selection(as used in population genetics)
    An evolutionary process where traits that help organisms survive or reproduce become more common in a population over time.

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