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Language enabled by Baldwinian evolution of memory capacity
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (5):526-527 (2008)
Abstract
The claim that language is shaped by the brain is weakened by lack of clear specification of what necessary and sufficient properties the brain actually imposes. To account for human intellectual superiority, it is proposed that language did require special brain evolution (Deacon 1997), but that what evolved was a merely quantitative change rather than a radically new inventionMy notes
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