Reprinted with Permission 4/29/2021                    The RELICT HOMINOID INQUIRY 7:135-138 (2018)   Comment LANGUAGE IN HIGHER PRIMATES   RONALD COSPER     Linguists have maintained that possession of language is a unique attribute of human beings. Earlier scholars claimed that humans invented language and learned to speak, passing this ability on to subsequent generations. More recently, the universality of language has convinced most lingui