Evolution’s great mystery: Language - Michael Corballis
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What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing what’s in our minds: stories, opinions, questions, the past or future, imagined times or places, ideas. It is fundamentally open-ended, and can be used to say an unlimited number of things. So what does language mean for humanity, and how did we come to have it? Michael Corballis investigates.
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Meet The Creators
- Director Biljana Labović
- Educator Michael Corballis
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Art Director Mitchelle Tamariz
- Animation Mitchelle Tamariz
- Sound Designer Weston Fonger
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal, Elizabeth Cox
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Fact-Checker Joseph Isaac
