326 - The Origin of Language - Madeleine Beekman
11/10/202546 min
We sit down with Dr. Madeleine Beekman, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia, whose new book, The Origin of Language, presents a completely new and fascinating theory for how language emerged in homo sapiens, in human beings, in you and me and the rest of us.
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David McRaney· Host0:31
(instrumental music) Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart podcast. Episode 326. (instrumental music) Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart podcast. My name is David McRaney, and in this episode, we sit down with Madeline Beekman, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University