Neanderthal language? Just-so stories take center stage

Dediu and Levinson (2013) link two extraordinary claims: first, humans and Neanderthals were one and the same species and second, "Speech and language ... are ancient, being present in a modern-like form over half a million years ago in the common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans, the...

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Main Authors: Berwick, Robert C. (Contributor), Hauser, Marc D. (Author), Tattersall, Ian (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation, 2013-12-16T18:46:36Z.
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