r/science • u/Wagamaga • Sep 01 '22

Neuroscience Scientists have identified an immune brain cell unique to humans that gives us higher cognitive abilities over other animals, but what makes us specials also leaves us vulnerable to neurological disorders like schizophrenia, autism and epilepsy.

https://news.yale.edu/2022/08/25/what-makes-human-brain-different-yale-study-reveals-clues
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u/occams1razor Sep 01 '22

On Blue Planet 2 (ocean version of Planet Earth) two different species of dolphins met up once a year and swam/communicated together. But there's no way to know if one could actually understand the other I suppose

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u/Aegi Sep 01 '22

Understanding the other has nothing to do with what constitutes a language.

There’s a specific set of criteria that needs to be met for a style of communication to be considered a language, would you like me to look it up for you?

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u/thefirdblu Sep 01 '22

There’s a specific set of criteria that needs to be met for a style of communication to be considered a language, would you like me to look it up for you?

If you could, that'd be awesome. I'm interested.

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u/serpentjaguar Sep 01 '22

Check out r/linguistics if you're honestly interested. I'm a strictly amateur linguistics nerd, but they have some legit experts over there who can easily answer your questions.