• Where did language come from?

  • Jul 20 2021
  • Length: 29 mins
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Where did language come from?

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  • Matt and Brandon are back after a hiatus and are ready to discuss all the deepest questions science can answer. They’re starting things off this week with the origin of language: how did we evolve the ability to talk and how is our system for communicating different from the ones that animals use? Tune in to learn some possible answers to these questions and to hear Matt turn one of them into a pitch for an animated musical.

    For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

    • SciShow video on animal communication systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2ebYNtFUA
    • Mocomi video on the evolution of language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VitFvNvRIIY
    • Crash Course video on how we can know more about past languages that don’t exist anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNkMC92kFLA

    Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).
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