How much of language, if any, came about in the same sort of way as the brooding chamber in snails?

2001/07/01 by Rudolf P. Botha, Rudolf P Botha · 7 citations
Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Arbitrariness #Arithmetic #Computer science #Discrete mathematics #Epistemology #Exaptation #Explication #Extensionality #Language and cultural evolution #Linguistics #Mathematics #Merge (version control) #Phenomenon #Philosophy #Sociology #sort

paper · doi:10.1016/s0271-5309(01)00002-7

published in Language & Communication 21(3), 225-243 (Elsevier BV)

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Citations

• Exaptation: A Crucial Tool for an Evolutionary Psychology
• The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme
• Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form
• Natural language and natural selection
• The exaptive excellence of spandrels as a term and prototype

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• Spandrel (biology) [wikipedia]