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Humans aren’t the species that strive for efficiency when communicating with a new study finding dolphins do it too.

It’s the first evidence that another species follows one of the basic rules that defines all human languages: the law of brevity.

The work which is just one step in a larger attempt to understand the evolution of communication, also suggests that human might not be as special as we like to think we are. Read more…

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