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How Language Began and the Human Understanding of Time: Daniel Everett's New Theories About the Evolution of Language

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posted on 2018-10-22, 07:09 authored by Rick DobleRick Doble
Daniel Everett has proposed a revolutionary new theory about how language began. He believes it started more than a million years ago before Homo sapiens with Homo erectus and then slowly evolved. I believe his theory works well with my ideas about time, ideas that I have been developing for seven years with my blog DeconstructingTime. I believe a concept of time also evolved slowly with humans and that this concept was intertwined with an ability to express time in language. Everett proposes that there were basically three language stages: a G1 beginning language, a G2 intermediate language and a G3 or modern language. My ideas about the developing sense of time in human beings fits with all three of these stages.

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