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Ep. 435: Steven Pinker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Evolution of Language

Stephen Hawking: Language is a complicated system. It's complicated not just computationally, that there are lots of things going on in the brain when we put together a sentence or understand a sentence. We have all those grammatical rules that allow us to know who did what to whom by unraveling the order of words in the way they're packed into phrases. There isn't one gene where if it's mutated, the other child is just mute. That suggests that language could not have appeared in one fell swoop.

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