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It's early emerging as we saw in those clips.
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So, what's it for? What does it do?
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If it's an accident, what's it an accident from? What properties does it have?
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And there are some properties that are important to know.
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It's social and communicative. Why do we know that? Because it's loud.
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Laughter is not like hunger. Hunger can be silent.
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Hunger is not essentially a message to other people
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but when humans – when it involves a loud noise –
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the reason why we've evolved loud noises is to communicate with other people.
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Laughter could be viewed as a form of involuntary noisemaking
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and it's contagious. That's another interesting thing about it.
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One of the great discoveries in television and movies