ArticleBiology & philosophy2018
Self domestication and the evolution of language.
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- Neural crest cell genes and the domestication syndrome: A comparative analysis of selection.PloS one · 2022Article
- Evolution and dysfunction of human cognitive and social traits: A transcriptional regulation perspective.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
We set out an account of how self-domestication plays a crucial role in the evolution of language. In doing so, we focus on the growing body of work that treats language structure as emerging from the process of
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