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  25 Oct 2026

  from monkey see, monkey do to monkey read

  … writing was born only fifty-four hundred years ago in the Fertile Crescent, and the alphabet itself is only thirty-eight hundred years old. These time spans are a mere trifle in evolutionary terms. Evolution thus did…

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  • cognitive-science
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