The Gradual Evolution of Language
Language is commonly held to be unique to humans, and to have emerged suddenly in a single “great leap forward” within the past 100,000 years. The view is profoundly anti-Darwinian, and I propose instead a framework for understanding how language might have evolved incrementally from our primate he...
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Language: | English |
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Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente
2014-12-01
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Series: | Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies |
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Online Access: | http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/96 |