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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Evolution of Language
There are six or seven thousand languages spoken in the world to day. Most people would say well over a hundred thousand languages spoken a and those languages are all products of evolution on the he cultural, historical track. So there's a really strong interplay between that kind of historical evolution, or cultural evolution track and ah, the biological wherewithal for understanding language. I'm not sure if we can say just yet if we've been biologically changed because of language, but, i mean, certainly people would say yes,.
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