More than Nature Needs : : Language, Mind, and Evolution /

More than Nature Needs : : Language, Mind, and Evolution / / Derek Bickerton.

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How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Bickerton, Derek,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER 1. Wallace’s Problem
  • CHAPTER 2. Generative Theory
  • CHAPTER 3. The “Specialness” of Humans
  • CHAPTER 4. From Animal Communication to Protolanguage
  • CHAPTER 5. Universal Grammar
  • CHAPTER 6. Variation and Change
  • CHAPTER 7. Language “Acquisition”
  • CHAPTER 8. Creolization
  • CHAPTER 9. Homo Sapiens Loquens
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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