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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.PS: this is a re-recording of an earlier conversation with Prof. Terrace.@6:33 End of intro. Episode starts@8:40 Is the online teaching format sustainable?@12:09 Why should we care about evolution of language?@15:45 What is the composition of language?@2303 The Skinner-Chomsky Coversation@25:53 Did the "Need to think" result in a universal grammar?@27:30 Where did words come from?@29:47 Are we safe to compare chimpanzees and humans with respect to evolution?@39:24 What were the pressures that lead homoerectus to evolution?@43:20 Were homoerectus the true heros of Human Evolution?@45:09 What will be the breaking point in the future of evolutionary studies once we have more certain answers?@50:00 The story behind the conclusion of the training of Nim Chimpsky@55:27 "We're not the only species that has language but we're the only species that has music"Watch this episode on Youtube/pgradioBuy 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]
