Don't Claim to Understand Human Origins If You Don't Understand the Origin of Language
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Noam Chomsky has for very long been a major and valuable voice in academia and US culture. A tireless writer, he has been an…
Noam Chomsky has for very long been a major and valuable voice in academia and US culture. A tireless writer, he has been an…
Recursion in the Time of Cholera What better time to think about recursion as the COVID-19 virus is busy replicating itself? The…
Yale computer scientist Dave Gelernter’s recent public admission that he’s giving up Darwin continues to make waves. On the…
Over at the website Peaceful Science they often take note of what I write here, usually using my post as a prompt for…
Humans have language and other animals don’t. That’s obvious, but how it happened is not. Since Darwin’s time, scientists have…
Front. Psychol., 07 May 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00401The mystery of language evolutionMarc D. Hauser1*…
There are two great mysteries involving language. The first is how language was ever able to originate. The mystery is…
Tom Wolfe’s book denies that language evolved and attacks Darwin and Chomsky with smugness lacking substance.
The last half of Wolfe’s book is concerned with Chomsky and Linguistics. Neurologists still think they have something to say…
Best-selling author Tom Wolfe (author of The Right Stuff) has written a very good new book called The Kingdom of Speech. The…
This is a guest post by Herbert Terrace and Michael Studdert-Kennedy, in the form of a response to Marc Hauser, Charles Yang…
Denyse O'Leary has written here about the difficulty that evolutionary psychology faces in explaining the origin of language.
I recently read through Marc Hauser et al., "The Mystery of Language Evolution", Frontiers in Psychology 2014, which expresses…
Shigeru Miyagawa, Shiro Ojima, Robert Berwick and Kazuo Okanoya have recently published a new paper in Frontiers in Psychology…
Marc Hauser, the psychology researcher who resigned from Harvard and was found by the Office of Research Integrity to have…
This is a guest post by Jeremy…
According to some big names in linguistics and evolutionary biology (Hauser, Lewontin, Chomsky, etc.) not very much. Two…
Many big names grace this paper which appears to pretty much say that know close to nothing about how language has evolved. The…
Hauser, Yang, Berwick, Tattersall, Ryan, Watumull, Chomsky and Lewontin have a co-authored article on The Mystery of Language…