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Letter: Humans first

Published 25 May 2011

From Richard Crews

Learning to talk to dolphins is a charming, romantic notion, but it seems a big jump from the researchers using their software to analyse footage of sign-language and gym routines (7 May, p 23). Unnecessarily big.

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to try it with some obscure human languages first? The investigators and their software might learn things that would then be useful in inter-species communication.

San Jose, California, US

Issue no. 2814 published 28 May 2011

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