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Daniel Everett

Trustee Professor of Cognitive Sciences, Bentley University

Daniel Everett is trustee professor of cognitive sciences at Bentley University in Massachusetts. His latest book is How Language Began (2017).

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Thinkers and theories

The American Aristotle

Charles Sanders Peirce was a brilliant philosopher, mathematician and scientist. His polymathic work should be better known

Daniel Everett

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Language and linguistics

Learning another language should be compulsory in every school

Daniel Everett

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Human evolution

Did Homo erectus speak?

Early hominins who sailed across oceans left indirect evidence that they might have been the first to use language

Daniel Everett

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Philosophy of language

Chomsky, Wolfe and me

I took on Noam Chomsky’s ideas about language and unleashed a decade of debate and ridicule. But is my argument wrong?

Daniel Everett