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Anon is an anthropologist (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Language is much older than just 10k years. There's a few reasons to think that language might have developed with erectus, which could make language 10x older than the 'human specie', according to anon.

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's why i said advanced language. Lots of animals have language. Crows have language

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

Usually the distinction is between "advanced communication" which some animals display, and "language", which only humans have.

Whether you want to call it language or advanced language, what we do today is way older than 10k years. There are stories that have been dated to 100k and if the arguments about erectus are correct, then what you call advanced language is probably 2m+ years old.