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You can get your point across in many ways: email, texts, or even face-to-face conversation (does anyone do that anymore?). But ants use chemical messages when organizing their ant buddies for an attack on your kitchen. Meanwhile, your human brain sends messages to other brains without you uttering a word.\nHear these communication stories \u2026 how language evolved in the first place\u2026 why our brains love a good tale \u2026and how Facebook is keeping native languages from going extinct.\nGuests:\n\n\n Mark Moffett - Entomologist, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, author of Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions\n\n\n\nV.S. Ramachandran - Neuroscientist, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego\n\n\nClare Murphy - Performance storyteller, Ireland\n\n\nMark Pagel - Evolutionary biologist, University of Reading, U.K., and author of Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind\n\n\n\nMargaret Noori - Poet and linguist at the University of Michigan, specializing in Ojibwe, and director of the Comprehensive Studies Program\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices