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The Link Between Evolution and Language | Richard Dawkins | TED
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@oma2635
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 am
If you are a hurry if you had our son for baby king how many languages in the world
@qutibahalshuriqy5492
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 am
Evolution is a theory not a Fact and it will never be.
@terrylevine
October 12, 2025 at 11:55 am
You don’t understand the scientific meaning of theory. It is fact, proven by a million facts over time.
@harv_jack
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 pm
Even Gravity is a theory. Gravity force between two mass is not a fact it is a theory based on evidence we have. Also evolution is the same! 🫵🫵🫵😉😉
@lifemotivation6789
October 12, 2025 at 11:31 am
This conversation between John McWhorter and Richard Dawkins is absolutely fascinating. 🔥 The way they draw parallels between language evolution and biological evolution is mind-blowing — especially the idea that both systems carry “excess” features that once served a purpose but now linger like ancient echoes. 🧬🗣
I love Dawkins’ comparison of human creativity and expression — poetry, music, art — to the peacock’s tail: extravagant, beautiful, and possibly shaped by sexual selection. It’s such a poetic way to view human intelligence — not just as survival, but as display.
And McWhorter’s insight about dead linguistic forms being like pseudogenes is genius. Both language and DNA carry traces of the past, little fossils of meaning and function. Evolution isn’t just about progress — it’s about memory. 💭
What an incredible reminder that our words and our genes both tell stories of where we’ve been.
@kerimakbas7210
October 12, 2025 at 1:06 pm
What an idiot! Fascinated by everything he hears!
@lifemotivation6789
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 am
@@kerimakbas7210 Everyone’s entitled to their take — but curiosity isn’t stupidity, it’s strength. The ability to stay fascinated is what drives learning, creativity, and growth. The day we stop being amazed is the day we stop evolving.
@doubleuenbeeeh
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 am
“let’s just get right started” nope people definitely don’t say that. Strong start!
@doubleuenbeeeh
October 12, 2025 at 11:51 am
Would’ve been a fascinating conversation if not for the way they both speak
@LifeInspector
October 12, 2025 at 12:33 pm
It’s extremely bizarre that there are no native closed captions for English, the only option being to translate it from Arabic?? This ends up with arbitrarily changed words and paraphrases of the actual words they’re saying, which are crucial to maintain in a discussion about language.
@aiscoutpk
October 13, 2025 at 5:57 am
That is a very fair point. Accurate captions are especially important for discussions about language itself. Auto-translated ones can easily distort meaning and context, so having proper English captions should definitely be a priority.
@camp44mag
October 12, 2025 at 12:53 pm
Save yourself twenty-one minutes of your life, don’t bother watching the video. Total nonsense is demonstrated in the first two minutes.
@harv_jack
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 pm
🤡🤡🤡🫵😉
@kerimakbas7210
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 pm
He’s making things up again
@harv_jack
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 pm
🫵🫵🤡🤡
@Mistercolorkey
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 pm
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@kenreed798
October 12, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Thanks!
@imahmed_ali
October 12, 2025 at 2:47 pm
I don’t usually comment stuff like this but The Elite’s Wealth Secrets by Robert Bluestein is different. I read it cover to cover last week and the strategies in there are what the wealthy actually use. Wish someone had told me about it sooner
@HossSingRound
October 12, 2025 at 4:17 pm
I think the idea of a single common ancestor, whether proto Indo-European or shrew, is too simple. Certainly if you follow the female lineage back, you will find a single common ancestor, and similarly if you follow the male lineage back. But as John McWhorter began to say, the genes that make up the two resulting species did not all come from those single individuals. As along as there is interbreeding, the genes continue to get shuffled. At some point the population expands and separates and those individuals that no longer interbreed can become separate species. The genes that they posess at the time of separation come from many individuals, not one single individual. They would have many common ancestors. Those ancestors would all be of the same species, so it is proper to speak of a species as a common ancestor, but not an individual.
With regard to languages, unless you claim that all languages develop only by drift, then ther can be no single proto language. Suppose you say that English derived from some proto Germanic language. What about all of the words borrowed from French? Are they not part of the English language? When two languages interact, you get a pidgin language, and the children who learn that pidgin as they are learning to speak convert that pidgin into a creole, and a new language is born. The creole has two clear ancestors, not one. I believe that most changes in language come from children learning to communicate and simplifying what they hear so far as they can be understood.
@aiscoutpk
October 13, 2025 at 5:56 am
That is a very insightful explanation. You captured the complexity of both biological and linguistic evolution perfectly. Just like species, languages evolve through a mix of shared ancestry, interaction, and adaptation rather than from a single origin point. The comparison between genetic blending and linguistic borrowing is an excellent way to show how deeply intertwined and dynamic both processes are.
@harv_jack
October 12, 2025 at 5:33 pm
Nice of Richard Dawkins ❤❤❤❤
@Teddy143Fresa
October 12, 2025 at 5:35 pm
I love language, however this didn’t really say anything. 😢
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@yeachanchoi449
October 12, 2025 at 8:46 pm
18:22 I have always wondered how I ended up in an Applied Linguistics PhD program when my child dream was to become a biologist. Maybe it was because of the “biology envy” all along. 😂
@aiscoutpk
October 13, 2025 at 5:55 am
Well said! Those examples really show how close we are to AI-driven innovation. I share daily updates about this kind of progress on my channel for people who love staying ahead of AI news.
@nfantone
October 13, 2025 at 6:23 am
What even is this format? This is not a conversation. The interviewer is having a chat with himself while Dawkins tries to insert mildly related thoughts into his ramblings.
@kpimon.author
October 14, 2025 at 11:47 am
I like these better. The interviewer MUST talk equal or more than the person he or she is interviewing.
@mrpearson1230
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 pm
John McWhorter is an honorable man and legend in the search and understanding of human language. He’s a talker, but what else would you expect from a linguist?
@nfantone
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 pm
@@mrpearson1230 He might be a linguistic, but interviewing requires a different set of skills. One he certainly does not display in this talk. He seemed fixated in spouting his pre-made questions, regardless of the answers or the direction the conversation would take, which goes against the rules of a debate. And we got this disjointed, at times incoherent segment as a result.
@jonathaneffemey944
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 am
Thanks so much for posting this
@grapeshott
October 13, 2025 at 2:12 pm
What a horrible subtitles for the video!!
@Theoriginalanimalcracker
October 13, 2025 at 3:17 pm
The USA is the king of “you will get nothing and you will like it”
@5um0fMe
October 13, 2025 at 6:58 pm
Dawkins should be blacklisted from all of academia and respectable intellectual discourse. He’s proven himself to be a backward thinker, despite his extensive education. Most of us who once admired and respected him have now rejected him because he’s said some truly bigoted and incredibly obtuse things and revealed himself to be just a crusty privileged stooge who’s willing to toss out the whole of biology to maintain his bigoted narrative.
Sad to see he’s even plowed on a TED stage.
@Nah_Bohdi
October 14, 2025 at 12:05 am
So he is saying The Word was Him, and was with Him.
@lenloving
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 am
This conversation needed Daniel Everett. The anthropologist would bridge the linguist and the biologist, especially one with his field work background.
@JafarKibiya
October 14, 2025 at 7:29 am
Nice vedio 👍
@ElsayedShaheen-o1k
October 14, 2025 at 7:36 am
Horrible
@ChrisLocke1969
October 14, 2025 at 7:38 am
I really wanted to hear Richard, but then you introduced a bunch of rubbish about future tense and you sounded like a third grader. I guess I won’t be watching this video
@Bythirteen
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 am
Dope
@Robinson-1878
October 14, 2025 at 11:08 am
Amazingly interesting chat
@RomanAround_3201
October 14, 2025 at 12:48 pm
Too many unnecessary words? Sounds like a good argument for newspeak in 1984
@LuuLuong-bn8iy
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 pm
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@DavidHamster88
October 14, 2025 at 5:46 pm
I found this conversation disappointing. As a layperson fan of both linguistics and genetics, I hoped they would done a better job of showing the known similarities.
@wickramavee4365
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 pm
I see Richard has recovered from the effect on his speech from the stroke years ago, but has not entirely recovered. 👍
@wilbertwallace6655
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 pm
lol great example.. English doesnt even have a future tense. Will buy is just the same as intend to buy. Will means intention. Those are present tense. In spanish voy a comprar present tense, yo compraré is future tense.