13 Quotes by Daniel L. Everett

Ability to think in complex ways must precede talking in complex syntactic constructions.

All human behaviour, including language, is the working out of intentions, what our minds are directed towards.

The current Sahara desert was then non-existent. Instead, all of North Africa was covered in lush forests that stretched across the Middle East and on through Asia. Flora and fauna were rich throughout large swathes of the world that are today barren deserts. This ecological-climatological fecundity dramatically contrasts.

Each human alive enjoys their grammar and society because of the work, the discoveries and the intelligence of Homo erectus.