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Re:Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird ca... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @07:53PM (#14556937)
>when it was the result of a gradual evolution //

What's the evidence showing it was gradual? Big jumps may be unusual statistically [what set are you sampling? 'planets with apex predators that are bipedal mammalians' looks like too small of a sample to make statistical inferences??] but then so is genesis and it seems that happened.

Re:Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird ca... by devoply on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:18PM (#14557692)
punctuated evolution stipulates this very thing.