Phylogeny of Writing

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
9 min readSep 26, 2023

IT TOOK (AT LEAST) 300,000 YEARS FOR HOMO SAPIENS

TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE AND WRITING FROM SCRATCH

(Silvia Ferrara’s The Greatest Invention, 2019–2022)

A Review by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

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Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, PhD in Germanic Linguistics (University Lille III) and ESP Teaching (University Bordeaux II) has been teaching all types of ESP