The peak of language diversity may have been ... known as phylogenies, which chart the history of their evolution in a manner analogous to that for biological species. It also means that the ...

the demands of language would have had time to affect brain evolution more broadly. A large network of subtle gene changes and neurological adjustments would be involved, resulting in a well ...

The story of language evolution is still being pieced together, but FOXP2 appears to be one of its most important chapters. FOXP2’s influence begins in the developing brain, where it helps guide ...

However, these birds do not acquire combinatorial language. So, evolution of sound articulation is independent from and also a simpler process than improving voluntary imagination. In conclusion ...

But these simplified models are fairly removed from realistic learning. In his book on language evolution, Derek Bickerton described these models as a “case of looking for your car-keys where ...

However, if changes in connectivity along this pathway are a major contributor to the evolution of language, then what are the functions of those pre-existing cortical areas in macaques and ...

Part of the reason LDT caught on to begin with is that language evolution, as a field, lacks concrete data. As John Locke, a linguistics professor at Lehman College, put it, “Motor control rots ...

Joshua Plotkin’s dive into the evolution of language began with clarity—and also a lack of it. Today, if you wanted to talk about something that’s clear, you’d say that it has clarity.

Things get trickier, however, when attempting to examine a sign language’s evolution. Most transformations within the currently over 300 known sign languages (or SLs) around the world occurred ...