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11H 50min
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English
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What is our species’ greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is ... language. Learn why language is our ultimate invention—one that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every conceivable way, and one that has fundamentally changed us, as well.

© 2023 The Great Courses (Audiobook): 9781629978703

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Audiobook: 13 September 2023

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