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    Challenges→Humans possess superior cognitive capacities compared to chimpanzees despite chimpanzees' superior working memory.

    Without empirical confirmation that photographic memory suppression causally produced language capacity, the supporting argument commits a post hoc fallacy.

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    • 1.Post hoc fallacy requires assuming temporal sequence proves causation without independent causal mechanism evidence.
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    • 2.No neurobiological studies demonstrate photographic memory suppression directly enabled symbolic abstraction capacity.
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    • 3.Alternative explanations exist: language arose from social coordination needs independent of memory system changes.
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    • 1.Causal claims about cognitive evolution require inference, not just empirical confirmation—some mechanisms are unobservable.
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    • 2.Post hoc applies to unsupported causal claims; if the argument includes plausible mechanistic reasoning, it avoids the fallacy.
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    • 3.Demanding empirical confirmation of prehistoric cognitive changes sets an unreasonably high evidentiary standard for all evolutionary hypotheses.
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