The Elimination of Intermediate Varieties: How Evolution Lays the Groundwork for Assigning Rights

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. It was truly a miracle that once Anne Sullivan showed her that water and its wetness could be symbolized with sign language, it constituted a communication breakthrough that ‘baptized’ Helen into the human race. Without an appreciation of Symbols, Helen would have remained much like the Neanderthals–almost human, but not quite there yet.

No, Helen Keller always was fully human. Profoundly disabled humans are fully human. I believe that Neanderthals could use symbols.