eli5 how humans can make so many sounds while most other animals with a tongue and mouth can make only few
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Others have pointed out that animals can make a wide range of noises, possibly larger than a human’s. Notably, humans did not evolve to understand the noises of other animals with nearly the same precision as noises of other humans, nor did most of us grow up listening to minute differences in birdsong with as much focus as we do with humans. It’s similar to facial recognition; other animals can have just as much difference in appearance from one another as humans, but we don’t have as much reason to differentiate animals like that, so our brain is neither designed for nor receives as much practice as identifying those differences.
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