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I just watched the third part of the PBS television series on "Becoming Human." It barely discussed the origins of speech or language, which I suppose is just as well. Better to say nothing than to say something superficial and pretend that it is the...
The FOXP2 gene as illustrated by Simon Fisher (Oriel College, Oxford), the investigator who first isolated the FOXP2 gene.
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A letter to the current issue of Nature has caused a stir among those interested...
Human children around the world are put in the care of adults who are not their mothers. It is so common we take it for granted, but it is very unusual among apes.
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I’ve just read an article in the latest journal of...
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Here’s a book with a novel thesis: the English language has been, to coin a term, Vikingized. A creolized language is a grossly simple pidgin language that has been turned into a syntactically-complex mother tongue. A...
As a hobby-linguist, I'm thrilled to find a whole blog on the topic of language origins. This is much more satisfying than an article here, a snippet there.
