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Mark Pagel
Mark Pagel is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Reading and a fellow of Britain’s Royal Society. He is the author of
Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.
Lauren Giordano / The Atlantic
Why We Speak
An evolutionary biologist argues that humans started talking because they needed to negotiate.
Mark Pagel
June 24, 2015