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Alphabet soup

With hieroglyphics, the wedding of language and knowledge began its inevitable evolution

In the Americas' with no written language, early Peruvian knowledge was transmitted parent to child

The transmission of knowledge in the Middle Ages began with ‘a brigade of international translators,’ the development of the university

The connections of language, thought and social structure

Folklore documents 'the full complexity of the human situation'

Forty thousand years from now...



 
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