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After the neocortex reached a certain size, after its interconnectivity reached a certain density, the rapid development of language-dedicated areas was achievable — in an organism of small enough somatic dimensions to free a large portion of neocortical tissue for linguistic activities. Through time those activities — and their cultural systems — were selected for and enriched. The catastrophic discontinuity in the evolution of intelligence made man possible.
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Margaret A. Boden, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man (New York: Basic Books, 1977), p. 5.
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Johnson, M.L. (1988). AI, Computers, Density. In: Mind, Language, Machine. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_12
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