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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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The evolution of language and thought.

Journal of anthropological sciences = Rivista di antropologia : JASS, 2016
Language primarily evolved as a vocal medium that transmits the attributes of human culture and the necessities of daily communication. Human language has a long, complex evolutionary history. Language also serves as an instrument of thought since it has become evident that in the course of this process neural circuits that initially evolved to ...
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Language evolution in the laboratory

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2010
The historical origins of natural language cannot be observed directly. We can, however, study systems that support language and we can also develop models that explore the plausibility of different hypotheses about how language emerged. More recently, evolutionary linguists have begun to conduct language evolution experiments in the laboratory, where ...
Thomas C, Scott-Phillips, Simon, Kirby
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Evolution: Language Use and the Evolution of Languages

2013
Language 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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Music, evolution and language

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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The evolution of the SR language

Distributed Computing, 1986
As a result of our experience, the SR distributed programming language has evolved. One change is that resources and processes are now dynamic rather than static. Another change is that operations and processes are now integrated in a novel way: all the mechanisms for process interaction — remote and local procedure call, rendezvous, dynamic process ...
Gregory R. Andrews, Ronald A. Olsson
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Language evolution as cultural evolution: how language is shaped by the brain

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractThis paper reviews arguments against the evolutionary plausibility of a traditional genetically specified universal grammar. We argue that no such universal grammar could have evolved, either by a process of natural selection or by other evolutionary mechanisms.
Nick, Chater, Morten H, Christiansen
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Evolution, brain, and the nature of language

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2013
Language serves as a cornerstone for human cognition, yet much about its evolution remains puzzling. Recent research on this question parallels Darwin's attempt to explain both the unity of all species and their diversity. What has emerged from this research is that the unified nature of human language arises from a shared, species-specific ...
Berwick, R., Friederici, A. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-865X, Chomsky, N., Bolhuis, J.   +3 more
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On the Evolution of Unnatural Language

2011
A search of the web reveals that natural language is considered to be language which a human would consider natural and unnatural language is language a human would consider artificial. This clearly raises interpretation questions and plenty of leeway so I am going to take the latter view here and bend it somewhat to consider programming languages as ...
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Simulating the Evolution of Language

2002
This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of the computational models and methodologies used for studying the evolution and origin of language ...
Cangelosi, A.; id_orcid 0000-0002-4709-2243, Parisi, D.   +1 more
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