How Could Language Have Evolved?

The evolution of the faculty of language largely remains an enigma. In this essay, we ask why. Language's evolutionary analysis is complicated because it has no equivalent in any nonhuman species. There is also no consensus regarding the essential nature of the language “phenotype.” According t...

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Main Authors: Bolhuis, Johan J., Tattersall, Ian, Berwick, Robert C., Chomsky, Avram Noam
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90974
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1061-1871
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3632-2461