How the brain evolved language

"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 universal evolutionary designs - universal minimal neural networks - have been adapted for human language."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: A baby wildebeest, born on the Serengeti, learns to walk and run in a matter of minutes.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

1

Pages

240

ISBN

9780195151244

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