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Revision 171 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/08-mind.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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The Paris Linguistic Society banned the topic in 1866 as unanswerable. Genetics, archaeology and comparative cognition now offer partial evidence. Estimates of when language arose still range from 50,000 to over 1,000,000 years ago.

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