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It seems a little strange to treat this as a triumphant victory for the ULH. At the most, you've shown that the "fundamentalist" evolved modularity hypothesis is false. You didn't really address how the ULH explains this same evidence.
And there are other mysteries in this model, such as the apparent universality of specific cognitive heuristics and biases, or of various behaviours like altruism, deception, sexuality that seems obviously evolved. And, as V_V mentioned, the lateral asymmetry of the brain's functionality vs the macroscopic symmetry.
Otherwise, the conclusion I would draw from this is that both theories are wrong, or that some halfway combination of them is true (say, "universal" plasticity plus a genetic set of strong priors somehow encoded in the structure).