Chimpanzees lack recursion, displacement, and other core UG properties despite 6 million years of separate evolution, suggesting UG isn't a refinement of ancestral primate communication.
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recursion(HCF's characterization of the core property of FLN)
A cognitive universal capacity posited by HCF that underlies not only natural language but also arithmetic (counting and the successor function), and possibly navigation and social relations; not defined over specifically linguistic inputs and outputs.