Take language, for example. There must have been a time when the human race communicated strictly with grunting and punching. That and suggestive wind-breaking would have been the extent of what our ancestors could do in order to communicate higher ideas to each other
Take a look at this :)
Also … I take it you are cogniscent of how Pratchett’s trolls communicate yes? [1]
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[1] Apart from Mr Shine, of course — Him Diamond!
Oh … and Detritus when it gets really cold, but, even then, cultural mores are cultural mores and even the best of us know that … however sapiosexual we may be ourselves … to get a girl to like you, you gotta send her a dickpic — so, even at his most intellectual, even he’d still probably have thrown rocks at her.