The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)
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The Role of Cultural Intelligence in Language Evolution
There's this idea that cultural intelligence was the driving factor, you know, because we learn all of our life skills socially from other people as opposed to having like most of our behaviors hardwired. And maybe my question is poorly posed, right? Maybe it's not like one thing drove the other, but that there was just sort of reciprocal relationships among all of these all of these traits that were kind of self reinforcing over time. Yeah. I mean, I think that they're not like mutually exclusive models and that there's ways for like all these things to kind of feed into it.
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