Linking Early Human Language & Cave Art
Human language is thought to emerge around 100,000 years ago as an abstract symbolic system. It is very likely that …
Tag Archives: language evolution
Simulated Linguistic Evolution In The Laboratory
About a week ago, I read and posted on a summary piece on cultural evolution research in PLoS Biology. The …
Science covers some news from this year’s meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists
In brief, Science has published three news pieces that you maybe interested. They are all reports of what was presented …
Improvisation in Music is Independent of Central Brain Functions
Charles Limb and Allen Braun at Johns Hopkins have recently published a study on the internal characteristics and functions of …
Punctuated Equilibrium drives Language Evolution
Fellow blogger, Simon Greenhill of HENRY, and co-authors published a cool paper evaluating language evolution that just came out in …
Neandertals have the same mutations in FOXP2, the language gene, as modern humans
FOXP2 is thought to be a language gene. It is highly conserved in most mammals but in humans there are …
On the Evolution of Language
Both Nature and PNAS have put out two fascinating papers on the evolution of language. Nature‘s “Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics …
