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No Well every so often humans try to pin down

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exactly what makes us different from animals At first we

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thought it might be too well using But then jane

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goodall watched a bunch of chimps figure out how to

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make little termite shish kebabs So that was out Humans

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have also theorized that we differ from animals in that

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animals don't waste time with warfare But while chimpanzees do

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that to admittedly there's less blowing stuff up in chimp

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wars But those guys do you go at each other

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Termites probably look forward to these chimp wars because it

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gives them a break from being shish kebab What One

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current theory is that the main difference between us and

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our friends from the animal persuasion is that we communicate

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really well Well sure animals can communicate make noises have

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specific body language and can even produce chemicals that communicate

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things to other animals Like how bees communicate nearly everything

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with the release of pheromones Well how did the worker

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bees No It's timeto polish the queen's crown while she

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just squirt some pheromones into the air and her will

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is done Or if you know something like that so

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there's no denying that the animal kingdom does have a

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wide array of communication tools at its disposal but they

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don't write novels do they A dog is more likely

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to two on a book then write one right animals

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also don't record music or text their friends when it's

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way too late just because they're bored Well this unit

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is about how humans have invented new and more impressive

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tools to communicate their ideas from cave paintings Teo you

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know skype when people talk about the history of communication

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it tends to go something like this in the dawn

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of time and invented written language and became civilized Then

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he wrote shakespeare in the golden age of writing stuff

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and since then it's been a downhill slide which will

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end in the devolution of human speech l o l

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in the future we'll only talk with emojis at which

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point we might as well go back to being animals

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again But we don't believe that story We think the

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history of communication is about new technologies that have allowed

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more people to communicate more ideas much faster and more

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easily and overall it's been a pretty fantastic thing despite

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those people who choose to instagram every piece of food

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they eat Communication technologies have undergone a series of revolutions

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throughout human history which have improved our ability to share

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information The way we share information shapes everything from international

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trade to the writing of great literature to the way

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we think and act and that's no small potatoes it's

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giant potatoes In fact we would take a picture of

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them and post it But we just ripped on people 00:02:35.095 --> [endTime] who do that

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