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Each of us individually is the accumulated product of thousands of generations that have come before us in an unbroken line. Our culture and technology today are also the result of thousands of years of accumulated and remixed cultural knowledge.
  • Lvxferre [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    This is solely a pet “theory”. As in, nothing backed up by literature.

    What if 600kya we had the shift from paralinguistic communication to true language, and that allowed better transmission of culture?

    (For references our earliest reconstructions are for Proto-Afro-Asiatic, around 14kya. As in, almost yesterday.)