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    If language is a spandrel, the claim that 'whatever enabl... — Carmelics
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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.

    If language is a spandrel, the claim that 'whatever enables language learning' faced strong positive selection is unwarranted, since the selected trait was something else.

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