Language, Art, and Drugs

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Language, Art, and Drugs

• Oct 30, 2014

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Origin of Language

• First written languages appeared 5000 years ago
  and were complex, so had evolved long before that
  point
• Two stages in the emergence of a new language
  pidgins (crude) and creoles (more complex)

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Origin of Art

• First art from Cro-Magnons 40,000 years ago

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Origin of Drug Use

• Willful self-damage hallmark virtually unique
  to humans