91: Linguistic Time Machine, part 2: Prehistory [Bonus episode]

We’re climbing back into the linguistic time machine and taking a look at language in the long view. We’ll find out what language was like

100,000 years ago
1 million years ago
10 million years ago

and then jump into the future

100 years
1,000 years, and
10,000 years from now.

What will we find?

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Show notes

Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolution
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223784/

On the Neurocognitive Co-Evolution of Tool Behavior and Language: Insights from the Massive Redeployment Framework
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12577

Homo sapiens and early human migration | Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from

[$$] Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people | The Economist
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/01/birds-are-just-as-fashion-conscious-as-people

Dinner Guests: How Wolves And Ravens Coexist At Kills
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/dinner-guests-how-wolves-and-ravens-coexist-at-kills/#

Linguistic Hypotheses on the Origins of Language
https://freelanguage.org/general-language-info/linguistic-hypotheses-on-the-origins-of-language

Heave Ho!
https://www.heavehogame.com

Researchers ‘Translate’ Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—a Lot
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-translate-bat-talk-and-they-argue-lot-180961564/

What bats have to say about speech and language
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325843/

Our Brains Treat Signed and Spoken Languages Alike
https://www.futurity.org/brains-sign-language-speech-1721212/

Fire control | CHIELD
https://correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variable.html?key=389791574

Homo erectus may have been a sailor – and able to speak | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/20/homo-erectus-may-have-been-a-sailor-and-able-to-speak

Cooking | CHIELD
https://correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/variable.html?key=4234432752

Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?
https://www.ted.com/talks/suzana_herculano_houzel_what_is_so_special_about_the_human_brain?language=en