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Mark Pagel

Using biological evolution as a template, Mark Pagel wonders how languages evolve.

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Mark-Pagel

languages

"Language is a piece oftechnology to rewire each other'sminds"

= our genes talking

subversive power

phrases

words

the most subversive tool we have

story of Babel (bible)

talk in eachother languages

irony

languages exist and preventus from communicated

we can not say anything

word are just a puff of air

something worth explaining

languagues only with humans

chimpanzee

the use sticks

why not buy a bag of nuts

the smash a rock on a nut

lack of social learningfrom other

whatchin

imitating

no benefit from other wisdom

in 1 mi year they would do the same

ancesters

home erectus

the made hand axes

not much development

neanderthals

showed vert little change in300.000 years

monkey see monkey so

we can learn

by watching other people

imitate

choose amongst a ray of options

build on widwom

out idead accumulate

our knowledge evolves

acculmulative culturaladoptation

social learning

our species

make stuff

make stuff of life

any species that aqcuire langues

would evolve

"Language evolved to solve the crisis ofvisual theft, to coordinate our activities"

we prospered like no other animal

valuable trade

new lands and resources into people

the voice of our genes

evolve language

developed many language

70008000 language

most languages are found incountries where people areclosely packed

see new guinee

1000 language

remote oceanic island

200.000 years ago

social learning

future course of

sociolgy

languague

social learning is visual theft

benefit of others thoughts

hide your best ideas

choose

smaller groups

less ideas

not much development

systems communities

share ideas

languague is the result

languague

social technolgy

to enhance cooperation

coordinate activities

languague open the sphere ofcooperation

simplest axe of exchangedepend on language

put ideas together and haveproperity

this way humans evolve

animals have not evolved

'Not having language would belike a bird not having wings"

barriers

Facebook friendship links map

languages

we dont have sex withpeople we cant talk to

European Union

27 countries

23 languages

cost alot of money &time

languages solution to visual theft

can we afford to have all the languages?

standardisation

metric system is winning

hours, minutes, seconds is standard

modern world

chinese man, his languagespeaking by more people

though he needs to translatein english

world depends on cooperation

destiny one world: one language