Scientists say orangutans can ‘talk’ about the past JUST LIKE US

2019-2-3 12:00

The evolution of language converted a defenceless naked ape into a world-dominating force. It fundamentally transformed how humans transmit information and knowledge. A large and potent component of language is our ability to communicate about things that are not here, that happened in the past, or that will happen in the future.

This feature of language is known as “displaced reference”. Displaced reference is universal across the world’s languages and pervades our daily lives. In fact, to speak about the present moment has become a rarity nowadays, though noticeable exceptions are when we comment about the weather, ask for the…

This story continues at The Next Web

. origin »

Knowledge (KNW) íà Currencies.ru

$ 0 (+0.00%)
Îáúåì 24H $0
Èçìåíåèÿ 24h: 0.00 %, 7d: 0.00 %
Cåãîäíÿ L: $0 - H: $0
Êàïèòàëèçàöèÿ $0 Rank 99999
Äîñòóïíî / Âñåãî 0 KNW

language past displaced reference feature daily lives

Èñòî÷íèê: thenextweb.com

language past → Ðåçóëüòàòîâ: 12


Encrybit ICO

- ENCRYBIT THE RESEARCH BASED CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE Encrybit made history moments creating massive surveys in cryptocurrency market with 12k+ responses from traders among 167 countries. Encrybit exchange is thought of traders where we are merging their demands in reality developing the secured and featured enriched trading platform that does not want to compromise the emotions of traders.

2018-11-14 19:41


IOTA Finalizes Abra, Bringing It One Step Closer To Qubic Update

IOTA has published its monthly Qubic status update, announcing that the team has spent the past month finalizing its Abra programming language. This programming language will be used by Qubic, the protocol layer that will be used to implement smart contracts and payment gateways on the IOTA network: “August was all about cleaning up details… The post IOTA Finalizes Abra, Bringing It One Step Closer To Qubic Update appeared first on UNHASHED.

2018-9-11 18:08


Ôîòî:

Google is reportedly building Fuchsia OS to replace Android on all its devices (Update: not anytime soon)

Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen and Mark Gurman have a juicy scoop on Google’s secretive Fuchsia OS project, which we’ve been hearing about for the past couple of years. The company is reportedly working to flesh out the platform to eventually run on a wide range of devices, and perhaps even replace Android on Google-branded hardware someday.

2018-7-20 11:21


Ôîòî:

Google is reportedly building Fuchsia OS to replace Android on all its devices

Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen and Mark Gurman have a juicy scoop on Google’s secretive Fuchsia OS project, which we’ve been hearing about for the past couple of years. The company is reportedly working to flesh out the platform to eventually run on a wide range of devices, and perhaps even replace Android on Google-branded hardware someday.

2018-7-20 11:21


Ïàðòíåðû Currencies.ru



Ðåêëàìà íà Currencies.ru

Ñàìîå ñâåæåå íà Currencies.ru

How climate change infiltrated popular culture

It seems that people are finally waking up to the threat of climate change. The most poignant sign of this for me was seeing an infographic I created adorning the main music stage at Reading Festival 2019.

Jupiter’s Europa could contain life — and these missions aim to find it

It’s brilliant news. In just over a decade, there will be two spacecraft exploring one of the most habitable worlds in the solar system – Jupiter’s moon Europa. That’s thanks to a recent announcement by NASA that the orbiter Europa Clipper has been given the go ahead, scheduled to reach the moon at the beginning of the 2030s.

How finding the first exoplanet changed our perception of the universe

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos. ” Half the prize went to cosmologist Jim Peebles, and the other half was awarded jointly to Michel Mayor and my colleague Didier Queloz for the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star.