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Cellular Evolution of Language

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2021
The 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, 2012
In 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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Evolution of Language

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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Evolution of Language

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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Language evolution without evolution

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2003
Jackendoff'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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