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
