It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

The Baldwin effect is a hypothetical process in which a learned response to environmental
change evolves a genetic basis. Modelling has shown that the Baldwin effect offers a …

Explaining the extravagant complexity of the human language and our competence to
acquire it has long posed challenges for natural selection theory. To answer his critics …

Human language provides a highly efficient communication system, which emerged due to
cultural interactions. To understand this still mysterious process, various interdisciplinary …

Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For
example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in …

It is widely assumed that language in some form or other originated by piggybacking on pre-
existing learning mechanism not dedicated to language. Using evolutionary connectionist …

This working group staked out the landscape of mathematical and computational modeling
approaches to language evolution. The authors attempt both to provide a survey of existing …

Abstract The Minimalist Program in generative linguistics is predicated on the idea that
simplicity is a defining property of the human language faculty, on the one hand; on the …

This paper argues for culture as a significant determinant of the modern human genome. As
progress in the fields of genetics and evolutionary biology have gained greater insights into …

The language parasite approach (LPA) refers to the view that language, like a parasite, is an
adaptive system that evolves to fit its human hosts. Supported by recent computer …