The Domestication of Language : : Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal / / Daniel Cloud.
Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day. Applying Charles Darwin's theory of "unconscious artificial selection...
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