Language Evolution

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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....

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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack....

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    • The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
    • By: Jack D. Forbes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
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    • This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native-American and African-American peoples throughout the hemisphere....

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    • By: Herbert S. Terrace
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
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    • In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. Terrace concluded that the project failed - not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words....

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    • By: Simon Prentis
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-21
    • Language: English
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    • What makes us human? Why are we the only animals who wear clothes, drive cars, trawl the internet, and fly helicopters on Mars? It’s all because we’ve learnt to talk, yet remarkably, we still don’t know how we did it....

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    • The Evolution of Language in the BuzzFeed Age
    • By: Emmy J. Favilla
    • Narrated by: Christine Marshall
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • As language evolves, what is the future of 'correct' style? Favilla argues that we should be mainly concerned with clarity, flexibility, playfulness and political awareness....

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    • Humanity's Evolution Into Multidimensional Communication
    • By: Jamye Price
    • Narrated by: Jamye Price
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Humanity is changing. Intuition and spiritual growth are escalating within many. Light Language is a natural part of this evolution, though it is such a different type of expression that it is often misunderstood.

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    • The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
    • By: Jack Lynch
    • Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers - those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak....

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    • A History of Football Terminology
    • By: Timothy P. Brown
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Hut! Hut! Hike! explores the history of football terminology by examining when and why more than 400 familiar words and expressions entered the ...

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    • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
    • By: Gaia Vince
    • Narrated by: Gaia Vince
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues that we are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture....

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    • Unlocking the Power of Magic through Ancient Texts
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Are you ready to embark on an extraordinary journey through an unseen world teeming with mystery and magic? Do you have the curiosity to uncover ...

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    • Unlocking the Secrets of Interspecies Communication
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the dynamic universe of language and translation through the lens of advanced technology in "Cracking the Code." This trailblazing eBook ...

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    • Exploring the Future of Human-Machine Communication
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • The new eBook, "Minds and Machines", is a riveting exploration that zooms straight into the pulse of the vibrant world of Artificial Intelligence (...

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    • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
    • By: Gaia Vince
    • Narrated by: Gaia Vince
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years....

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    • The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English
    • By: Charles Hodgson
    • Narrated by: Charles Hodgson
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Hodgson traces the development of our language using easily recognizable milestones such as Beowulf, William the Conqueror, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, with a minimum of dates and dry facts....

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    • The History, Psychology and Evolution Through the Media of Everything Profane, Explicit, and Blasphemous
    • By: Toby Verde
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Castrogiovanni
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • A history and examination of cursing, swearing, whatever you want to effing call it....

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    • A Comprehensive Guide to Spanish Reference Works
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Prepare yourself for an enlightening and engaging journey with the eBook "Exploring the Richness of Spanish". Shedding light on the captivating ...

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    • By: Jieun Kiaer
    • Narrated by: Hannah Choi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • Considering the effects of social media, the Covid-19 pandemic, virtual work, globalization, and artificial intelligence, Kiaer paints a compelling portrait of a rapidly evolving language characterized by creativity and democratization.

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