And Michael Tomasello's book "Origins of Human Communication" has a sentence 261 words long that's more intelligible than many sentences one tenth its length.

Clarity hinges on structure and sense, and his line uses 11 semicolons – here, the right choice – to form a precisely executed parallelism.

#writing #punctuation #MichaelTomasello #semicolons #copyediting #syntax

Review article from #MichaelTomasello on social motivation and emotion comparing ourselves with our great ape cousins.

#cooperation #evolution #nhprimates #sharedintentionality https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-023-09464-0