Robin Rendle
Rookie web designer and sometimes-writer.
The Origins of Language
200,000 years ago language struck our species like a bolt of lightning in the dark, or so the theory goes.200,000 years ago language struck our species like a bolt of lightning in the dark, or so the theory goes. Somewhere in the bush, walking upright amongst thin reeds and ducking under branches that swirled across the earth, there was a person that had all the faculties of modern language. Long before the great migration out of Africa, this person lived somewhere in Ethiopia, Somalia or South Sudan; their skin was dark, their hair was long, their teeth were probably rotten, and they were…Robin Rendle2 min read