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Communication And Complex Communication

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Complex Communication
Where humans are today is an absolute miracle significantly due to the process of collective learning. Collective learning is how individuals learned to do many fundamental tasks and how various cultures in the world developed. Early evidence of collective learning was found by archaeologists when they discovered human skulls that dated back about 200,000 years ago. These skulls had a more flexible jaw allowing those early humans to speak vocally. (Early Evidence of Collective Learning, Big History Project). Languages allowed humans to share information with each other and pass down information across countless generations. Humans have cultivated a complex and well-defined language that has allowed for collective learning in which we can progress much further as a society than any other animal group has.
All living beings have communication but what’s special about human communication is that there are elaborate languages. These elaborate languages have a lot of flexibility to the point where new words are made and added constantly (Text 8). However, in other organisms that doesn’t happen because they keep on communicating in a stagnant language. For example, bacteria can communicate by producing distinctive organic molecules that have specialized receptors. These receptors allow bacteria to detect the presence of other bacteria (Text 1). This is important to bacteria because it lets them detect other bacteria and usually bacteria want to be in a

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