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by oblio 1199 days ago
> Language doesn’t prove the absence of natural solitude. It just shows we’ve been “pretty social” for a while.

For modern humans it does.

You can't dedicate a huge percentage of your brain to speech and communication in general, and allocate a sizeable percentage of your total energy usage (!) to them, and still be meant to be a solitary species.