Case for Biological Origins of Language Grows Stronger

The project's major difficulty has been that although there are good theoretical and linguistic reasons for believing that our speaking capacity evolved, the physical evidence for language's biological development has been wanting. The argument is not over, but new genetic, fossil, and arc...

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Published in:Bioscience 2008-05, Vol.58 (5), p.472-472
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Evolution
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Language
Language and languages
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Neanderthals
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BioBriefs
Conferences
Conferences (Gatherings)
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Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Genetic aspects
Genomics
Humans
Language
Language and languages
Linguistics
Neanderthals
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Physiological aspects
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Speech
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