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What’s Revolutionary About the Origins of Language?

A Woman Spoke the First Word and It was "No!"

September 27, 2026

If a book has Revolutionary in its title, it’s perhaps appropriate to go topsy-turvy and begin a review of it with a conclusion (Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis’s The Revolutionary Origins of Language is a wonderful book). As for Origins, the beginnings of an urgent present sense, they will go to the end. Dedicated to […]

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Troy Nahumko September 20, 2026

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