Talk given to the Radical Anthropology Group at Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW on 10 November 2015. Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis explained why language and society are fundamental to the emergence of humans as a species, or the 'human revolution' as they call it. They draw on primatology, linguistics, evolutionary theory, biological and social anthropology, in particular of existing central African hunter-gatherer societies. Chris Knight is the founder of the Radical Anthropology Group and author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture (1995). Dr Jerome Lewis is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London.
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ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/people/academic_staff/j_lewis
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