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    Mark Pagel on how language transformed humanity

    1. Why does Pagel say we have different languages?

    2. What cognitive ability do humans have that rest of the apes and other animals lack?

    3. According to Pagel, what social problem does the capacity for language solve?

    4. What two options did early human development have for solving that problem?

    5. What does language do for us, according to Pagel?

    6. How does Pagel explain the success of the human species over and above that of the rest of the
    animal kingdom?

    7. Why are humans uniquely able to inhabit wide-ranging environments all over the Earth?

    8. What kinds of places have the highest density of different languages? Why?

    9. What future does Pagel imagine for our language diversity? Why? Do you agree? Why (not)?

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