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January 09, 2008

The Human Species First Words

"It can be reasonably assumed that the first words to emerge during the origin of human speech included the names of plants and animals. That advance, which probably occurred during the transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens a half million years ago, can be regarded as the earliest forerunner of science. Accuracy and repeatability in communication about the environment were then as now necessary for survival. Getting things by their right names, as the Chinese put it, is the first step to wisdom."

E.O. Wilson - Harvard biologist, researcher, theorist, and naturalist.

Posted by Casey Kazan.