Language and the Mind

How the Brain Created Language (1x6)

Data de estreia: Mar 01, 2020

Did the human brain gradually evolve a specialized “mental organ” designed for language? Or was language a product of cultural evolution? Take a deep dive into the fascinating arguments on both sides and examine our relationship to the human microbiome as an analogy. We aren’t born with the bacteria in our microbiome, but our biology is extraordinarily receptive to them. And once combined, the relationship transforms us and our abilities—very similar to language.