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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Main Author: Michael C. Corballis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente 2014-12-01
Series:Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
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Online Access:http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/96