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Recent research reveals that humpback whale songs share structural patterns with human language, adhering to Zipf's law, which describes the frequency of word usage in human languages. This discovery suggests a convergent evolution of communication complexity between humans and whales, despite millions of years of evolutionary separation.

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-link-human-speech-whale-song-rqtwrgcds