When Did People Start Talking? - by John McWhorter

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When Did People Start Talking?

We used to think that language was about 50,000 years old and originated in Europe. We were wrong on both counts.

Nov 6, 2023

Skull of Homo Erectus from what is now Kenya. Did this person talk?

There’s good reason to believe that sophisticated speech began long before homo sapiens hit the scene. John explains.

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