CiNet×大阪大学大学院人文学研究科　言語科学講演会 ＃１

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Shigeru Miyagawa
　Professor of Linguistics, MIT
　Visiting Professor of Biosciences, University of São Paulo
　Executive Advisor, Research Center for Super Smart Society, Seikei University

Lecture 1 (December 15, 16:00 JST):

“How genetics can shed light on the emergence of language in evolution and the role that language played in shaping modern human behavior”

Recent advances in the study of the genetics of early H. sapiens hold promise of shedding empirical light on the question of when human language was present in the population of our ancestors. While these studies do not tell us when language first appeared in evolution, they can tell us with some reasonable certainty when language must have been present in the H. sapien population. That is, these genetic studies can identify the lower boundary at which language was present in the early human population, which we estimate to be around 130 Ka. This lower boundary in turn helps us to identify the role that language played in shaping modern human behavior.

This is a collaboration with the São Paulo Excellence Chair team at the University of São Paulo and paleoanthropologists
at the American Museum of Natural Science.
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