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Genes, language, cognition, and culture: towards productive inquiry.

Human biology - 1 Apr 2011

Fitch W Tecumseh

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The Queen Mary conference on “Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language,” and the papers in this special issue, clearly illustrate the excitement and potential of trans-disciplinary approaches to language as an evolved biological capacity (phylogeny) and an evolving cultural entity (glossogeny). Excepting the present author, the presenters/authors are mostly young rising stars in their...

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PMID: 21615292
DOI: 10.3378/027.083.0210

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