How the brain evolved language
By: Donald Loritz.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Language and languages -- Origin; Biolinguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general; Human evolution
Description: "How can infinite language be generated from a finite mind? How could language have evolved from apes? How could apes have evolved from protozoa? How could protozoa have evolved from rocks? In a highly readable series of thought experiments, the first half of How the Brain Evolved Language retraces the steps by which Darwinian evolution selected first one-celled animals which could communicate among themselves, and then multicelled organisms which could communicate within themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

"The second half of How the Brain Evolved Language explores the particular ways in which universal evolutionary designs - universal minimal neural networks - have been adapted for human language."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.