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Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

New Frontier

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The Evolution of Languages

I want to dig deeper on centralization for decentralization. What framework should we use to even approach these questions? That's a really interesting question. I haven't thought about it very deeply, but one thing in which you get more languages in the tropics and fewer in cold regions. You're seeing that in the case of English too. If you go to India, many people will speak English, but you might struggle as a Brit or an American to understand them at first because not just the accent, but the way of using the language is changing quite rapidly. So I think you're seeing a constant process of homogenization followed by separation. And I don't think we will ever

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