The genetic basis for the emergence of creativity in modern humans remains a mystery
despite sequencing the genomes of chimpanzees and Neanderthals, our closest hominid …

The study of language evolution, and human cognitive evolution more generally, has often
been ridiculed as unscientific, but in fact it differs little from many other disciplines that …

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

I presuppose here Chomsky (2013), including separation of projection (labeling) from the
principles of construction of expressions. Assume further that for interpretation, syntactic …

An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.
All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a …

There are many questions one can ask about human language: its distinctive properties,
neural representation, characteristic uses including use in communicative contexts …

Language, humans' most distinctive trait, still remains a 'mystery'for evolutionary theory. It is
underpinned by a universal infrastructure—cooperative turn-taking—which has been …

Detailed comparative studies have revealed many surface similarities between linguistic
communication and the communication of nonhumans. How should we interpret these …

Language plays a pivotal role in the evolution of human culture, yet the evolution of the
capacity for language—uniquely within the hominin lineage—remains little understood …