How did language evolve?

20:15

May 24 2025

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Museum of Engineering and Technology in Krakow

Św. Wawrzyńca 15, 31-060 Kraków

After the lecture, linguist and evolutionist Prof. Przemyslaw Zywiczynski of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun will participate in a discussion with Prof. Zuberbühler. They will talk about how research on ape communication brings us closer to answering the question of how our own language evolved.

Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Przemyslaw Zviczynski deals with the evolutionary origins of language. He has devoted monographs to this topic: Evolution of Language (2015), Language Origins (2018) and Perspectives on Pantom…

Klaus Zuberbuehler

Researcher of animal minds and communication. Creator of the research field known as ape linguistics: using methods typical of the study of human languages, Professor Zuberbühler began to unco…

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