I believe the answer is: At a young age, children demonstrate the ability to invert interpretations of heard speech without necessarily having heard evidence that verifies these interpretations. This implies an innate mechanism by which such inversions and interpretations are processed
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From the information above, we can infer that primates (such as chimps and human) born with a certain type of ability to communicate which printed in our genetic composition. This explains why all expressions and gestures that made from people in different culture generally interpreted as the same.