Sublime

Noam Chomsky has famously argued that a Martian scientist would conclude that all earthlings speak dialects of the same language.

The Portuguese were a network, held together by religion and language, and with better sources of market information in long-distance trades than their purely Asian counterparts.11 Portuguese became the lingua franca of maritime Asia. The very marginality of the Portuguese as an alien maritime subculture helped to make them acceptable to government

Contrary to linguist Noam Chomsky’s long-dominant theory that language evolved recently and discontinuously in a massive mutation, these findings about handedness (among other discoveries) now place it far deeper in the human cultural past.

What was the Sapiens’ secret of success? How did we manage to settle so rapidly in so many distant and ecologically different habitats? How did we push all other human species into oblivion? Why couldn’t even the strong, brainy, cold-proof Neanderthals survive our onslaught? The debate continues to rage. The most likely answer is the very thing tha