-Hi all, I'm a forty-something former newspaperman now working on my first novel. I obviously read a lot, currently reading The Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahahon. I tend to read a bit of everything: classics, modern literature, and genre, plus a lot of science and history too. Books on my s...

Humor is important, but also seems a natural extension of language and intelligence Many animals can be said to have a sense of playfulness, like this wolf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zmri42px8g So, I would say the development of language ranks way, way, way up there. The neolithic revolution i...