Mark Pagel

The speeches by Mark Pagel provide an atypical take on language. As an evolutionary theorist, Pagel highlights the crucial importance of language to society and to its progressive development. At the same time, he remains critical of the maintenance of separate languages, and instead supports the concept of a universal language.

Pagel currently works as a professor with the University of Reading's Philip Lyle Building. His specialties in fields like linguistic evolution and behavioral ecology have leg him to the head of Reading's Evolution Laboratory where he oversees the biology department.

Pagel's interest in language is rooted in his academic endeavors. His speeches delivered on the subject speak to his scholastic focus upon the relationship between linguistics and biological evolution, revealing novel patterns and further support for his belief in an all-encompassing manner of communication.