Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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K. Sterelny
2012
Language, gesture, skill: the co-evolutionary foundations of languagedoi.orgPDF
K Sterelny
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367(1599):2141--2151, 2012
Abstract This paper defends a gestural origins hypothesis about the evolution of enhanced communication and language in the hominin lineage. The paper shows that we can develop an incremental model of language evolution on that hypothesis, but not if we suppose that ...
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2011
Cause and effect in biology revisited: is Mayrs proximate-ultimate dichotomy still useful?doi.orgPDF
KN Laland, K Sterelny, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt, T Uller
Science 334(6062):1512--1516, 2011
Abstract Fifty years ago, Ernst Mayr published a hugely influential paper on the nature of causation in biology, in which he distinguished between proximate and ultimate causes. Mayr equated proximate causation with immediate factors (for example, physiology) and ...
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From hominins to humans: how sapiens became behaviourally moderndoi.orgPDF
K Sterelny
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1566):809--822, 2011
Abstract This paper contributes to a debate in the palaeoarchaeological community about the major time-lag between the origin of anatomically modern humans and the appearance of typically human cultural behaviour. Why did humans take so long—at least 100 000 ...
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