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This document discusses how tool use may have led to the emergence of language. It argues that manipulating tools, like flint knapping, introduced the cognitive concept of "object" into a world originally made up of dynamic events and interactions. This transition from events to objects involved reorganizing how early humans perceived their environment. The skills developed for tool manipulation, like categorization and displacement, provided the conditions for language to emerge. Later sections will examin

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