Re: New analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 kya

On 2025-07-01, Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:

fossils to cultural artifacts. The authors of the new
analysis took a different approach. They reasoned that
since all human languages likely have a common
origin — as the researchers strongly think — the key
question is how far back in time regional groups began
spreading around the world.

For a different view, see Piotr Gąsiorowski's old blog entry

Too Many to Communicate
https://langevo.blogspot.com/2013/04/too-many-to-communicate.html
  Question 1: Was there a time when all humans spoke the same
  language?
  [...]
  No single language, then; at any rate not in anatomically modern
  humans. We have always been multilingual.

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