YouTube has a film clip (here) on language origins. It strikes me as a little naive, but it has some nice footage of ape and human gestures. It runs about 3 and a half minutes.
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youtube is blocked by the state in Turkey. It would be good if you write the exact name of the video so that we can reach through ktunnel and the like.
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BLOGGER: To get around this problem I have embedded the clip on my site.
Posted by: isakerem | September 20, 2009 at 05:35 AM