How Could Language Have Evolved?

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Johan J. Bolhuis ,

* E-mail: j.j.bolhuis@uu.nl

Affiliations Cognitive Neurobiology and Helmholtz Institute, Departments of Psychology and Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Zoology and Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Ian Tattersall,

Affiliation Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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Noam Chomsky,

Affiliation Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Robert C. Berwick

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Reader Comments

For an update of the comparative-anatomical approach to speech evolution, google
"Speech originS 2017 Verhaegen PPT"

No competing interests declared.

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