Robbins Burling argues that primate call systems
A) are organized in a way so different from human symbolic language that it is difficult to imagine a sequence that could convert a call system to language.
B) are directly related to the human use of language.
C) allowed our ape ancestors to communicate orally.
D) and human symbolic language are controlled by the same part of the brain.

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Primate call systems are fundamentally different from human language, making it hard to see how they could evolve into language.

Robbins Burling Argues That Primate Call Systems