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Yeah agreed, it's quite an odd use of language.



We were able to immediately know what they meant, and also know that it didn't look like exactly what they meant. I'd have to read the article to know if language drove brain development, or vice versa.


I didnt know what was meant. I thought they meant it was poison for evolution.


Jet fuel is kerosene, which doesn't flash easily. So this would probably put out any fire. Perhaps that was the idiom they were going for?




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