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Letter: Chirpy idea

Published 19 February 2014

From Graeme Kemp

If birdsong led to the development of human language (8 February, p 36) then could it be that the first human communication was actually a tweet?
Wellington, Shropshire, UK

Issue no. 2957 published 22 February 2014

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