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The Cultural Evolution of Language

Posted by on March 10, 2010, filed under Uncategorized; 5 Comments.

One of the major shifts in thinking about language came in 1990, when Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their groundbreaking paper: Natural language and natural selection. In it, they argue natural selection was the central process in shaping the biological structures underpinning language. Since then, the field of language evolution has blossomed into a […]

An Introduction (plus Finch Headphones)

Posted by on March 9, 2010, filed under Uncategorized; 3 Comments.

Given this is my first post on GNXP I guess the first place to start is with a brief background: my main areas of study are focused on language, evolution and anything else unfortunate enough to find itself in between. Over the last year much of my time was spent at Edinburgh University, where I […]

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