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Natural Language and Natural Selection
Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that language may have evolved as the by-product of selection for other abilities or as a consequence of as-yet unknown laws of growth and form. Others have argued that a biological specialization for grammar is incompatible with every ten...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djs496