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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I’m not sure your initial premise is sound… Dolphins, whales, bats. If you tried to catalog bird phonemes it would make the range of human sounds look infantile in comparison. Dogs have a wide variety of expressive vocalizations. I wouldn’t be surprised if rodents do, too, but they are so short and high pitched that the nuance is lost on us.
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