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The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)

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The Evolution of Language and the Brain

The brain and language kind of like co-evolve and adapt to each other. And then it also, you know, paid the way for us to have like this more complex, um, sociality,. That in turn makes language a very useful thing to have. But there is one sort of thing that you can look at, which I think is interesting: At what point do we see hominins having potentially access to a diet that provides enough calories to fuel our larger brain?

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