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World Service,17 Sep 2004,22 mins

Deaf Nicaraguan Children invent their own Sign Language

Science In Action

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Deaf Nicaraguan children invented a sign language by themselves though social interaction, and it has been elaborated and transmitted down through new student cohorts. Report from the Agricultural Biotechnology Conference in Germany. A previously unknown dinosaur as large as a blue whale discovered in Spain. A musical string requiring a microscope to see it.

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