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Language Evolution: A Changing Perspective
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DOI：10.1016/j.tics.2017.01.013.png)
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From ancient times, religion and philosophy have regarded language as a faculty bestowed uniquely and suddenly on our own species, primarily as a mode of thought with communication as a byproduct. This view persists among some scientists and linguists and is counter to the theory of evolution, which implies that the evolution of complex structures is incremental. I argue here that language derives from mental processes with gradual evolutionary trajectories, including the generative capacities to travel mentally in time and space and into the minds of others. Whatmay be distinctive in humans is the means to communicate these mental experiences along with knowledge gained from them.
Keywords:
MENTAL TIME-TRAVEL
WILD CHIMPANZEES
NEURAL BASIS
MEMORY
ORIGIN
BRAIN
MIND
REPRESENTATION
HIPPOCAMPUS
SEQUENCES
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