To make it even worse, the academic field of these authors is linguistics.

I got a citation from a group once, in a footnote, which was just basically “we think the conclusions of [32] are wrong, but we will not comment on why”. 1., its because your conclusions were in conflict with ours, and 2. Well, OK then, I’ll do better in the future will all the constructive critisism you are providing!

Did a whole review on human evolution and how it correlates to how birds, dolphins, and primates have developed the ability to use tools. There was one paper from the 90s that everyone seemed to be replying to, I got a lot of good info