Tag: Language

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August 24, 2012

Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say

Biologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology.

Biology

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September 8, 2012

Study Demonstrates Evolution of Stereotypes

Stereotypes form and evolve over time through social transmission of information, similar to the way in which languages evolve.

Culture

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May 24, 2017

The Evolution of Language and its Speakers

What separates us from the apes is a sequence of social and technological revolutions, one major change after the other in the life experiences of human communities. The emergence of language was one such revolution, not the last and definitely not the first.

Biology

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May 22, 2017

Challenging Chomsky and his Challengers: Brian Boyd Interviews Daniel Dor

If you want to think about language and evolution, about language and experience, about language and almost anything, or about almost anything in language, then start, or start all over again, with Daniel Dor’s The Instruction of Imagination.

Biology

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