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Evolutionary Dynamics Do Not Motivate a Single-Mutant Theory of Human Language
One of the most controversial hypotheses in cognitive science is the Chomskyan evolutionary conjecture that language arose instantaneously in humans through a single mutation. Here we analyze the evolutionary dynamics implied by this hypothesis, which has never been formalized before. The hypothesis...
Autores principales: | de Boer, Bart, Thompson, Bill, Ravignani, Andrea, Boeckx, Cedric |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6965110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31949223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57235-8 |
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