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The Evolution of Language
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The authors exploit newly available massive natu- ral language corpora to capture the language as a language evolution phenomenon. But their work is limited to a subset of the languages in the corpus.About:
This article is published in New Scientist.The article was published on 2010-04-01. It has received 826 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biolinguistics.read more
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An integrated theory of language production and comprehension
Martin J. Pickering,Simon Garrod +1 more
TL;DR: It is asserted that producing and understanding are interwoven, and that this interweaving is what enables people to predict themselves and each other.
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The co-operative, transformative organization of human action and knowledge
TL;DR: In this article, a range of features that are central to the constitution of human action are discussed, including language structure, prosody, and visible embodied displays, and the accumulation and differentiation through time within local co-operative transformation zones of dense substrates.
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Modeling the cultural evolution of language
TL;DR: The main conclusion of the paper is that cultural evolution is a much more powerful process that usually assumed, implying that less innate structures or biases are required and consequently human language evolution has to rely less on genetic evolution.
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The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to the experience of language
TL;DR: This paper proposes an alternative framework in which iconicity in face-to-face communication is a powerful vehicle for bridging between language and human sensori-motor experience, and, as such, iconicity provides a key to understanding language evolution, development and processing.
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Evolutionary Developmental Biology
TL;DR: A Quantitative Genetics Model for Morphological Change in Development and Evolution, and the Geoffroy-Cuvier Debates: a Crossroads in Evolutionary Morphology.
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Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements
Austin Burt,Robert Trivers +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses three ways to achieve "Drive" within-Individual Kinship Conflicts rates of Spread Effects on the Host Population, and the study of Selfish Genetic Elements.
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Pax 6: mastering eye morphogenesis and eye evolution
Walter J. Gehring,Kazuho Ikeo +1 more
TL;DR: Pax 6 genes from various animal phyla are capable of inducing ectopic eye development, indicating that Pax 6 is a master control gene for eye morphogenesis, and it is proposed that the various eye-types found in metazoa are derived from a common prototype by a mechanism called intercalary evolution.