EPISODE · Dec 13, 2021 · 11H 23M
SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human by Simon Prentis
from Fuel Your Mind With This Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook — Perfect At Home. · host Simon Prentis
https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/244693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human Author: Simon Prentis Narrator: Mike Fraser Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins Release date: 12-13-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 5 ratings Genres: Evolution Publisher's Summary: What makes us human? Why are we the only animals who wear clothes, drive cars, trawl the internet, and fly helicopters on Mars? It’s all because we’ve learnt to talk, yet remarkably, we still don’t know how we did it. Speech! suggests an answer that’s been hiding in plain sight - the simple yet radical shift that turned our analog grunts and shrieks into words. But, its consequences are far from simple: being able to share ideas through language was an evolutionary tipping point - it allowed us to link up our minds.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/244693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human Author: Simon Prentis Narrator: Mike Fraser Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins Release date: 12-13-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 5 ratings Genres: Evolution Publisher's Summary: What makes us human? Why are we the only animals who wear clothes, drive cars, trawl the internet, and fly helicopters on Mars? It’s all because we’ve learnt to talk, yet remarkably, we still don’t know how we did it. Speech! suggests an answer that’s been hiding in plain sight - the simple yet radical shift that turned our analog grunts and shrieks into words. But, its consequences are far from simple: being able to share ideas through language was an evolutionary tipping point - it allowed us to link up our minds.
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