On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:33:28 -0400, MarkA <toor@nowhere.com> wrote:

The development of writing is much harder than the development of language...

That's not at all obvious. It's pretty much impossible (for now) to say
much about the likelihood of our sort of intelligence developing over
any period of time, along with language. But it is possible to see how
writing developed multiple times. It isn't unreasonable to think that
writing is a nearly inevitable development given language, and the right
sort of intelligence.
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