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Open access, freely available online nonhuman species. They conclude that many traits that were formerly thought to have evolved speci?cally for speech (such as having a descended larynx or categorical perception) are also present in other species. But perhaps the most interesting idea about pre-adaptation comes from the work of neuroscientist Michael Arbib on ‘mirror’ neurons in monkeys. These neurons are a subset of the grasp-related premotor neurons that discharge not only, as other premotor neurons do, when the monkey executes a certain class of actions, but also when the monkey obse