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Once we had the anatomy and physiology required for speech,
從我們擁有說話必備的生理結構那刻起
we were primed to talk.
就準備好了說話
Enriched their lives enormously.
極大地豐富了他們的生命
I don't know why I said it.
我不知道我為什么要這么說
To create everything that exists up till now.
創造至今存在的一切
But when did we actually start to speak?
但我們究竟是何時開始講話的呢
The dawn of speech is one of the great puzzles of evolution
語言的黎明是進化史上的巨大謎題之一
because there's no fossil record of verbal communication
因為并沒有記錄語言交流的化石
for scientists to look back through.
供科學家來回溯過去
Mark Pagel is an evolutionary biologist
馬克·帕杰爾是位進化生物學家
on the hunt for the origins of language.
專門尋找語言的起源
There's a lot of ideas about this.
關于語言起源有很多說法
They're all speculation
都是推測
but they rely on having the right genetics in place
但他們都依賴于適當的基因
and having the right anatomy in place,
以及適當的生理結構
and we know that by 200,000 years ago,
我們知道 在二十萬年前
both of those things were available.
人類就具備了這種基因和結構
