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Prakhar inquires about how humans evolved language from the world renowned animal language researcher and psychologist Herbert Terrace.Herbert S. Terrace (born 29 November 1936) is a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. His work covers a broad set of research interests that include behaviorism, animal cognition, ape language and the evolution of language. He is the author of Nim (1979) and Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can (2019). Terrace has made important contributions to comparative psychology, many of which have important implications for human psychology. These include discrimination learning, ape language, the evolution of language, and animal cognition.@1:47 Language - A wall between humans and animals@7:20 Skinner's and Chomsky's theories of language@11:39 Attempts to teach animals how to speak@20:28 How did language evolve?@31:15 Does language make for a means of amplifying Human Intelligence?@31:36 "Humans are the most cooperative species"@34:25 Neural basis of language and Grammar as a form of cultural evolution@39:45 Relation between language and consciousness@41:28 Did the need to be responsible emerge in out evolutionary history?@43:12 What is the future of language?@48:50 What questions about evolution of language bother Terrace?@50:20 Are we still bent on Darwinism to explain evolution?Buy Herbert Terrace's book'Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can'Art of ConversationLearns to have better conversations with anyone. Taught by Prakhar himself artofconversation.inConnect with us [email protected] on InstagramGet in touch:email: [email protected]
