Patañjali's Mahābhāṣya ("Great Commentary") delves into the intricacies of Pāṇini's grammar, addressing linguistic philosophy and semantics, and remains a cornerstone in the study of Sanskrit grammar.
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Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī, composed around the 5th century BCE, is a pioneering work in linguistic analysis, systematically codifying Sanskrit grammar with approximately 4,000 concise rules.
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https://archive.org/details/ashtadhyayi/ashtadhyayi0/page/n13/mode/2up
Identical twins Matthew and Michael Youlden, fluent in 26 languages including one they invented as toddlers, exemplify the human capacity for linguistic creativity.
The "Integration Hypothesis" posits that human language emerged rapidly through the combination of pre-existing cognitive systems, leading to the complex syntax we use today.
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00564/full
Studies on birdsong have revealed complex communication systems in avian species, offering parallels to human language development.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/how-scientists-started-to-decode-birdsong
Research suggests that language evolution shares features with biological evolution, offering insights into human history and cognitive development.
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https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0405-3
Recent research reveals that humpback whale songs share structural patterns with human language, adhering to Zipf's law, which describes the frequency of word usage in human languages. This discovery suggests a convergent evolution of communication complexity between humans and whales, despite millions of years of evolutionary separation.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-link-human-speech-whale-song-rqtwrgcds
Marmosets have been observed using specific vocal labels for individuals, a behavior once thought unique to humans, dolphins, and elephants.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/29/marmosets-behaviour-specific-names-study
Neanderthals possessed the anatomical features necessary for speech, suggesting they had the capacity for complex language similar to modern humans.
The discovery of a 2nd century BC wine vessel with inscriptions hints at connections between the Basque and Iberian languages, shedding light on Europe's linguistic history.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wine-vessel-secrets-europe-oldest-language-basque-spain-vj6h7p3vl
Recent studies suggest that human language evolution is intertwined with prosocial behavior, cognitive development, and collaboration.
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1004384/full
A New Technosignature Hunt Begins
A fresh search of the Green Bank Telescope archive aims to find alien technosignatures in old data. Could our first contact already be hidden in past recordings? 
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05786
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Are We Missing the Cosmic Signal?
Radio-based searches for alien intelligence have improved—but are we even listening the right way? This study reviews how far we've come—and what we still don’t know. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=4708832
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60 Years of Silence?
After decades of searching, we still haven’t detected technosignatures from alien civilizations. Is the silence a statistical anomaly—or are we alone? This study models the probability of alien contact over time. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acc327/pdf
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Habitable Worlds at Cosmic Dawn?
New research suggests habitable planets could have formed just 200M years after the Big Bang—meaning life may have had a head start long before Earth existed. Are we too late to join the conversation? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.08375
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Yoga Vasistha: Are We Living a Nested Dream?
The Yoga Vasistha describes dreams within dreams, where waking life is just another illusion. Science agrees: reality is a simulation built by our minds. How deep does the dream go? #PonderLab #Advaita #DreamTheory
https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/yoga-vasistha-english/d/doc118096.html
