How Did Humans Invent Talking? (Nobody Taught Us)

No teacher. No dictionary. No first word to copy. So how did humans invent talking when there was nobody to talk to? A broken gene in a London family, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal bone, and a group of deaf kids in Nicaragua who built a brand new language from scratch all point to the answer. This one is stranger than it sounds. Chapters: 0:00 The Hook 0:34 The Impossible Problem 1:13 The Wrong Throat 1:50 The Family That Couldn't Speak 2:27 Did Neanderthals Talk? 3:04 The Kids Who Invented a Language 3:42 The Gossip Theory 4:19 The Missing Date 4:55 The Verdict Want to see where talking took us? Watch this next: How did humans go from the bottom of the food chain to the whole planet's biggest nightmare? What do you think the very first word was? Tell me in the comments. #HumanEvolution #Language #Science