The Evolution of Language (BSP 30)
/ Episode 30 of the Brain Science Podcast is a discussion of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally. We focus mostly on the first part of the book, which tells the story of how the study of language evolution has grown from almost a banned subject to a new field of inquiry called evolutionary linguistics. We also reflect on how recent findings in neuroscience like the importance of plasticity are influencing the field.
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Scientists Discussed in the Episode:
Read More- Noam Chomsky
- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
- Stuart Shanker
- Steven Jay Gould
- Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom
- Philip Leiberman