Book · 2011 · Science
The Symbolic Species
The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
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A book that Trenton recommended, The Symbolic Species, has this really interesting argument that language is not just a thing that exists, but it was also something that evolved along with our minds.
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Dwarkesh Patel A book that Trenton recommended, The Symbolic Species, has this really interesting argument that language i… 2
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“A book that Trenton recommended, The Symbolic Species, has this really interesting argument that language is not just a thing that exists, but it was also something that evolved along with our minds”
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“In The Symbolic Species, the book you recommended, there's indexical things where you see a tiger and you're like, “run” and whatever. Just a very behaviorist thing.”
