Temple Grandin Quote

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2009) - ISBN: 9781439130841