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Murray Gell-Mann: sobre los antepasados del lenguaje

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Después de hablar en TED2007 sobre la elegancia de la física, el increíble Murray Gell-Mann da una breve visión general de otra de sus pasiones: la búsqueda del antepasado común de las lenguas modernas.

Murray Gell-Mann brings visibility to a crucial aspect of our existence that we can't actually see: elemental particles. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for introducing quarks, one of two fundamental ingredients for all matter in the universe. Full bio »

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