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Language is difficult to develop because it requires the simultaneous co-evolution of: - Social structures & collaborative behavior - Environmental complexity (technology, etc) - Brain power - Physical ability to transfer information over a high-bandwidth channel (e.g. voice)https://twitter.com/ikonoklast/status/1233835252709285889 …
Any of these things can become a bottleneck. In fact, many unrelated species have developed forms of quasi-language, though nowhere near as advanced as that of humans, as they were bottlenecked by e.g. cognitive capabilities or environmental/social complexity.
This is also why the evolution of language is a very, very slow process. These factors are all interacting with each other, enabling or restricting the others -- a new factor becoming the new bottleneck whenever progress is made on one front. This is absolutely *co-evolution*.
Those factors are multiplicative. That's why human language is orders more complex than, say bees.
An American guy
and British man
are waiting
on the Empire State Building
ground floor
Watch this Brit,
We invented the Elevator
so call it ELEVATOR,
Sorry mate,
We invented the Language
so call it LIFT
I saw some video about cephalopods, which are arguably as intelligent as homosapiens. But apparently the mother 
always dies a few weeks after giving birth. And therefore each new generation starts from zero. Having some way of writing their experiences would be a gamechanger.
Each of those factors could be could be attributed partially to language itself, no? The chicken and egg here I think is indicative of the evolution paradigm’s difficulty in cognitive/teleological areas.
Keeping this one aside for helping build language at work, home, and church.
You forgot one of the most important point ---- Documenting what we have already learned. If we didn't document what we had learned, the knowledge would be lost over just a few generations. Documenting gives opportunity for more beings to analyze the learning and build upon it.
I'm pretty sure that's what he means with "Physical ability to transfer information over a high-bandwidth channel" --> writing
Have you read https://www.routledge.com/Cognitive-Evolution-1st-Edition/Boles/p/book/9780367028558 …? Highly relevant to this discussion and a superb book.
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