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MIT: When Did Human Language Emerge?
March 15, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 14, 2025:

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When did human language emerge?

A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that.

By Peter Dizikes, MIT News

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: When did human language as we know it emerge? A new su . . .

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