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      3 days ago

      Exhausting to do for a long period, and requires a direct and deliberate sight line to work - there will be no shouting “fire”.

      It’s actually been suggested the earliest languages could have been sign languages, since other apes don’t fully voluntarily control their noises. I would guess the above are why we moved on.