More than nature needs: language, mind, and evolution

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How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped out sophisticated brains, but this remained an intriguing guess - until now. Combining state-of-the-art research with 40 years of writing and thinking about language origins, Bickerton convincingly resolves a crucial proble…

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Full title :More than nature needs : language, mind, and evolution / Derek Bickerton.

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Publication Date:2014.

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Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:280 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9780674724907, 0674724909
oclc:on1158455031
Dewey Decimal:401.9

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Cognitive grammar Grammaire cognitive Homme -- Évolution Human evolution -- Psychological aspects Langage -- Acquisition Langage et langues language (general communication) Language acquisition -- Psychological a… Language and languages languages languages (study discipline) psycholinguistics Psycholinguistique