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Cellular Evolution of Language
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2021The evolutionary origin of language remains unknown despite many efforts to determine the origin of this signature human trait. Based on epigenetic inheritance, the current article hypothesizes that language evolved from cell-cell communication as the basis for generating structure and function embryologically and phylogenetically, as did all ...
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Evolution's Misleading Language
Science, 2012In the News of the Week story “All that glitters” (14 September, p. [1277][1]), Beverley Glover of the University of Cambridge describes the iridescent fruit of the African perennial herb Pollia condensata by saying, “The fruit's dazzling display may have evolved to capitalize on birds' attraction to sparkly objects, or to trick them into eating ...
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984
To the Editor.— The article entitled "The Dominance of Scientific English" by Robertson and Robertson 1 is of interest. The plea for a single scientific English may be a good one, but each "language" developed by a process more complicated than a simple "split," as is generally the case, and languages once "split" scarcely ever reunite.
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To the Editor.— The article entitled "The Dominance of Scientific English" by Robertson and Robertson 1 is of interest. The plea for a single scientific English may be a good one, but each "language" developed by a process more complicated than a simple "split," as is generally the case, and languages once "split" scarcely ever reunite.
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979
To the Editor.— The editorial by Samuel Vaisrub, MD (241:830, 1979), concerning the word "multifactorial" overlooked two dictionaries in which the term is defined. The following definition appears in a Merriam-Webster publication 1 : mul•ti•fac•to•ri•al* -fak′tōrē[unk]l, -′tȯr- or mul•ti•fac•tor -¦fakt[unk](r) adj : having or involving a variety of
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To the Editor.— The editorial by Samuel Vaisrub, MD (241:830, 1979), concerning the word "multifactorial" overlooked two dictionaries in which the term is defined. The following definition appears in a Merriam-Webster publication 1 : mul•ti•fac•to•ri•al* -fak′tōrē[unk]l, -′tȯr- or mul•ti•fac•tor -¦fakt[unk](r) adj : having or involving a variety of
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Language evolution without evolution
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2003Jackendoff's major syntactic exemplar is deeply unrepresentative of most syntactic relations and operations. His treatment of language evolution is vulnerable to Occam's Razor, hypothesizing stages of dubious independence and unexplained adaptiveness, and effectively divorcing the evolution of language from other aspects of human evolution.
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Nursing for Women's Health, 2021
Using clear, unbiased language can help all individuals who present for health care to feel welcome and acknowledged.
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Using clear, unbiased language can help all individuals who present for health care to feel welcome and acknowledged.
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Developmental Science, 2006
Abstract Darwin (1871) noted that the human musical faculty ‘must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed’. Indeed, previous research with human infants and young children has revealed that we are born with variable musical capabilities. Here, the adaptive purpose served by these differing capabilities is discussed with reference
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Abstract Darwin (1871) noted that the human musical faculty ‘must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed’. Indeed, previous research with human infants and young children has revealed that we are born with variable musical capabilities. Here, the adaptive purpose served by these differing capabilities is discussed with reference
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2016
How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process.
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How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process.
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1991
Language, whether spoken or signed, can be viewed as a gestural system, evolving from the so‐called mirror system in the primate brain. In nonhuman primates the gestural system is well developed for the productions and perception of manual action, especially transitive acts involving the grasping of objects.
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Language, whether spoken or signed, can be viewed as a gestural system, evolving from the so‐called mirror system in the primate brain. In nonhuman primates the gestural system is well developed for the productions and perception of manual action, especially transitive acts involving the grasping of objects.
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Evolution: Language Use and the Evolution of Languages
2013Language change can be understood as an evolutionary process. Language change occurs at two different timescales, corresponding to the two steps of the evolutionary process. The first timescale is very short, namely, the production of an utterance: this is where linguistic structures are replicated and language variation is generated.
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