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Can We Talk? Language, Society and Consciousness

3 December 2015


The story of human evolution does not end with the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa 200,000 years ago, or with the subsequent migrations to Europe, Asia and the rest of the world. Our curiosity about our origins demands that we try to explain why it is this particular species that goes on to dominate the planet.

This is the twelfth (and last) in a series of posts on the Oxford University Press TUMBLR site.

 

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