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SUMMARY:Human Past Journal Club
DESCRIPTION:Discussion paper:\nYakov Pichkar and Nicole Creanza (2026). The Evolution of Language. Editor(s): Jason B. Wolf\, Claudia Augusta De Moraes Russo\, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (Second Edition)\, Academic Press\, Pages 409-420\, ISBN 9780443157516\,\nhttps://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00030-6 \nAbstract\nThe evolution of modern humans has led to the proliferation of traits that are learned from other individuals\, instead of being inherited through genetics. The transmission of ideas and behaviors is facilitated by a uniquely human trait: language\, structured communication systems consisting of words and grammar. The neural and anatomical changes that allow for language have a basis in genetics\, but the specific features of language are transmitted through social learning between individuals. The words and the grammatical structures of languages can evolve over time\, both through change within a population and through contact between populations. In concert with the study of human genetics\, the study of language features and their evolution deepens our understanding of human demographic history and the nature of interactions between groups of people. \nModerator: Carina Schlebusch
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/human-past-journal-club-3/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
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SUMMARY:SCAS Seminar: Echoes of Preliterate Voices on the Shores of the Baltic Sea\, with Anthony Jakob
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nWhen people think of their ancestry\, they are often just as concerned with the origins of their linguistic and cultural identity as they are with their genetic history. And while modern advances in ancient DNA have dramatically improved our understanding of prehistoric population movements\, genes do not themselves carry language. The fields of population genomics\, archaeology\, and historical linguistics\, while capable of informing one another\, study qualitatively different aspects of human history\, which only partially overlap. In this way\, linguistics offers a unique perspective in the study of our past. \nMost languages ever spoken by humans have been lost to history. Prior to the relatively recent migration events that brought the Uralic and Indo-European language families to the Baltic region\, the area may have been rich in an unwritten linguistic diversity\, a diversity that was dissipated as communities shifted away from their native tongues. In my talk\, I argue that we can infer traces of these lost languages on the basis of the words for local fauna\, flora\, and topographical phenomena used today that appear to be borrowed\, but whose source cannot be identified. \nZoom Webinar: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/65802739142 \nAnthony Jakob is a historical linguist specialising in the Indo-European and Uralic languages and is currently a Human Past SCAS Junior Fellow.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/scas-seminar-substrate-words-and-language-shift-with-anthony-jakob/
LOCATION:Thunberg Hall\, Linneanum\, Thunbergsvägen 2\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminars
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