Journal Article10.1017/S0140525X00081218
Adaptive complexity in sound patterns
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About: This article is published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. The article was published on 01 Dec 1990. The article focuses on the topics: Sound (geography).
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Neo-Darwinian accounts of the evolution of language: 1. Questions about their explanatory focus
TL;DR: The neo-Darwinian theory of natural selection, it is generally considered, offers the only adequate conceptual framework for explaining the evolution of complex biological structures as discussed by the authors, and thus it is not really surprising that an increasing volume of work is aimed at constructing nea-darwinian selectionist accounts of language in the human species.
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Neo-Darwinian accounts of the evolution of language: 1. Questions about their explanatory focus
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- 01 Dec 2012
TL;DR: The neo-Darwinian theory of natural selection, it is generally considered, offers the only adequate conceptual framework for explaining the evolution of complex biological structures as mentioned in this paper, and thus it is not really surprising that an increasing volume of work is aimed at constructing nea-darwinian selectionist accounts of language in the human species.
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