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Researchers say marmoset monkeys call each other by name.
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The animals used unique calls for other monkeys in their group.
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Marmosets are the first non human primates known to use names.
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They then used artificial intelligence to analyze more than 50,000 monkey calls.
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This allowed the scientists to determine the animals had names for each other.
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Dr Omer believes the findings could shed light on how human language evolved.
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Human language was a singular phenomenon that popped out of nothing.
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We're starting to see evidence that this is not the case.
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Marmosets live in small monogamous family groups.
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Comparable evolutionary social challenges to our early pre-linguistic ancestors.
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