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Sunday, February 27, 2011

On medical job search

I recently finished a somewhat interesting book on how people started using language, Adam's Tongue. The author is a linguist and he does not believe the standard Noam Chomsky line that people are born with the potential to use language. At least, he believes that this had to be evolved the same as anything else. We have bigger brains now than we did two million years ago, thanks to using language. He makes a good case for language arising from the need of scavenging humans on the African savanna to convince other people to go help them get the meat from dead big animals such as the ancestors of elephants. It took many people to fight off the ancestors of lions, hyenas and others who also wanted that meat. Today doing a medical job search to find a way to make our living is relatively simply. But humans back then had a lot more problems and harder time feeding themselves.