Survival of the clearest

Steven Pinker ()
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Steven Pinker: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 2000, vol. 404, issue 6777, 441-442

Abstract: There are no fossils to show how language evolved. But evolutionary game theory is revealing how some of the defining features of human language could have been shaped by natural selection.

Date: 2000
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