Richard Leakey Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.

  Richard Leakey

  Communication, Reflection, Language

  Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.125, Hachette UK

• The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

  Richard Leakey

  Culture, World, Language

• The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.

  Richard Leakey

  Art, Powerful, Symbolism

  Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.124, Hachette UK

• It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

  Richard Leakey

  Humanity, Events, Today

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