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Pleistocene origins of cultural and linguistic diversification: how Homo sapiens and Neanderthals differed
2025-05-31
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It is now widely assumed that Neanderthals possessed a human language-like communication system. What is yet unclear is how different this was from ours. Here we ask whether the communication system of Neanderthals shared a key feature of human languages: ergodicity. Ergodicity allows linguistic evolution to continue for purposes of social differentiation without changing the species-wide language faculty and hamp...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7399a076-303b-5973-9b27-d540e9e9d33f
- DOI
- 10.32942/x2c35z