Reddit reviews Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press)
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The top answer hits the basic point.
However, I'd like to address one aspect of human evolution: language. Some AI and HI academics posit that humans' language is what separates us from other animals. That is, our ability to symbolically form and manipulate language is absolute and unique from all other species. Furthermore, Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick posit that the anatomical change that physically allowed us to form our capabilities for symbolic language is merge. They believe that a physical bundle of nerves/fibers completed a "loop" in the human brain that enabled us to recursively do "merge" operations on ideas, thoughts, and symbols in general.
I'll link sources when I get home.
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Here is a good, short paper to read. It mentions Chomsky and Berwick and their new book, Why Only Us. It talks about how they believe that (1) language is unique to humans, and (2) "Merge" enables language (among other interesting opinions they hold).
I'll also link the book here, though of course you have to buy it to read it, and I don't feel comfortable trying to find a PDF of it: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Only-Us-Language-Evolution/dp/0262034247