One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

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It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

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Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old. Estimates of when language originated vary widely, based on different forms of evidence, from fossils to cultural artifacts.