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  1. LeBrok

    Is complexity of grammar pointing to roots of a language?

    I have asked myself a question, why grammar of many modern languages is simpler, sometimes much simpler, when compared to their root language? English has a very simple grammar compared to its most influential source of Germanic family of Anglo-Saxon. Romance languages are grammatically...
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  2. edao

    Has human domestication made us stupider?

    "One of the most well-documented differences between domesticated animals and their wild counterparts is their brains: across every species that has been looked at, the brains of domesticated animals are smaller. Why does domestication lead to shrinking brains? And what does this mean in...
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