Understanding of language is difficult since we do not know how it is being processed in the
brain. Many areas of the human brain are involved in the relevant activities, even for …

It is justified to assume that part of our genetic endowment contributes to our language skills,
yet it is impossible to tell at this moment exactly how genes affect the language faculty. We …

This chapter surveys progress in the realm of language evolution. Its main message is that,
like vocal learning in birds, human language is a highly complex, polygenic trait that recruits …

This article explains the evolution of human language and the brain. There are many ways
organisms can adapt to moving targets. One of the ways is genetic evolution, when natural …

This paper reviews arguments against the evolutionary plausibility of a traditional genetically
specified universal grammar. We argue that no such universal grammar could have evolved …

The evolution of language and the evolution of the brain are tightly interlinked. Language
evolution represents a special kind of adaptation, in part because language is a complex …

Abstract Following Jerry Hogan, I argue that questions of function and evolution, and
questions of mechanism should be seen as logically distinct. Evolution is concerned with a …

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from;
how it relates to primate communication; how and why it evolved; how it came to be …

This paper represents an attempt to construct a programmatic framework for the evolution of
human language. The theory we propose is interdisciplinary in its essence. It is based on …

The book The Nature of Language addresses one of the most fundamental questions of
mankind: how did language evolve, and what are the neurobiological and cognitive …