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Após ter falado no TED2007 sobre a elegância em Física, o extraordinário Murray Gell-Mann dá-nos uma rápida visão geral de outro interesse apaixonante: encontrar a linhagem comum das nossas línguas 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 »
Translated into Portuguese by Sérgio Lopes
Reviewed by Paulo Calçada
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Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can’t believe they did all those things and didn’t also have a modern language.” (Murray Gell-Mann)
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