Which of the following options best captures the essence of the passage regarding the evolutionary origin of language? Passage: The dominant hypotheses in modern science believe that language evolved to allow humans to exchange factual information about the physical world. But an alternative view is that language evolved, in modern humans at least, to facilitate social bonding. It increased our ancestors' chances of survival by enabling them to hunt more successfully or to cooperate more extensively. Language meant that things could be explained and that plans and past experiences could be shared efficiently.

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Most believe that language originated from a need to articulate facts, but others think it emerged from the need to promote social cohesion and cooperation, thus enabling human survival.

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Experts are challenging the narrow view of the origin of language, as being merely used to describe facts, to being necessary to promote more complex interactions among humans.

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Since its origin, language has been continuously evolving to higher forms, from being used to identify objects to ensuring human survival by enabling our ancestors to bond.

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From the belief that humans invented language to process factual information, scholars now think that language was solely the outcome of the need to ensure social cohesion.

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