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"How can infinite language be generated from a finite mind? How could language have evolved from apes? How could apes have evolved from protozoa? How could protozoa have evolved from rocks? In a highly readable series of thought experiments, the first half of How the Brain Evolved Language retraces the steps by which Darwinian evolution selected first one-celled animals which could communicate among themselves, and then multicelled organisms which could communicate within themselves."--BOOK JACKET. "The second half of How the Brain Evolved Language explores the particular ways in which…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2002Oxford University Press, USA · 240 pages · 9780195151244
- Other · English · 1999Oxford University Press · 227 pages · 9780195118742
BiolinguisticsComparative and general GrammarGrammar, Comparative and generalHuman evolutionLanguage and languagesOriginLanguage and languages, originBrain, evolution