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The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Complexity of Languages

Linguists show that languages of any complexity can have different grammatical structures. The size and interconnectedness of population seems to explain at least some of that variation. English has a, you know, it's the worst example of a language for a number of reasons, but it has a super large vocabulary.

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