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Jul 10, 2016 4 min

Did the cavemen have names?

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists Hosted by Dr Chris Smith

Listener Kat got in touch to ask if cavemen really did have names and when did humans start naming each other. Lucka Bibic went in search of cavemen's names with the Professor of Linguistics at MIT, Shigeru Miyagawa. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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