A key feature of language that helps explain anthropologists' continued interest in studying it is that it

A. helps them distinguish between the more and less evolved human races.
B. is always changing.
C. enables us to compare human and nonhuman primate linguistic grammars.
D. tells us a lot about the present, although nothing about the past.
E. rarely changes, so it provides a good window into linguistic uses of the past.


Answer: B

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