How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett

How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention

Daniel L. Everett with Jonathan Yen (Narrator)

13 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions) user-added

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated with Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago and that we have a 'language instinct'. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of fields, including linguistics, archaeology, biology, ant...

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