Evolution’s great mystery: Language - Michael Corballis
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Michael Corballis |
TED-Ed
• August 2020
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What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing what’s in our minds: stories, opinions, questions, the past or future, imagined times or places, ideas. It is fundamentally open-ended, and can be used to say an unlimited number of things. So what does language mean for humanity, and how did we come to have it? Michael Corballis investigates.
Lesson by Michael Corballis, directed by Biljana Labovic.