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From the Ted Talk by Vilayanur Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
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Now, let's look at culture, the pnhoemneon of huamn culture. If you go back in time about [75,000] to 100,000 years ago, let's look at human evolution, it turns out that something very important happened around 75,000 years ago. And that is, there is a sudden emergence and rapid spread of a number of skills that are uuinqe to human beings like tool use, the use of fire, the use of shelters, and, of course, laugngae, and the abiitly to read somebody else's mind and interpret that person's behavior. All of that happened relatively quickly.
Open Cloze
Now, let's look at culture, the __________ of _____ culture. If you go back in time about [75,000] to 100,000 years ago, let's look at human evolution, it turns out that something very important happened around 75,000 years ago. And that is, there is a sudden emergence and rapid spread of a number of skills that are ______ to human beings like tool use, the use of fire, the use of shelters, and, of course, ________, and the _______ to read somebody else's mind and interpret that person's behavior. All of that happened relatively quickly.
Solution
- unique
- ability
- human
- language
- phenomenon
Original Text
Now, let's look at culture, the phenomenon of human culture. If you go back in time about [75,000] to 100,000 years ago, let's look at human evolution, it turns out that something very important happened around 75,000 years ago. And that is, there is a sudden emergence and rapid spread of a number of skills that are unique to human beings like tool use, the use of fire, the use of shelters, and, of course, language, and the ability to read somebody else's mind and interpret that person's behavior. All of that happened relatively quickly.
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