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Out of Africa: Human Generative Creativity and the Origins of Language

What makes us human? We have long known that humanitys uniqueness–language and our openended creativity–arose from our ancestors in Southern Africa, a generative promiscuity pervading all we do, from combinatorial tool making to combinatorial language; and from there to music and mathematics.

Robert Berwick Robert Berwick

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Neanderthal Language

Botha, Rudie. 2020. Neanderthal Language. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108868167

Rudie Botha Rudie Botha

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The Evolution of Sentenial Structure

Peter Gärdenfors. 2014. The Evolution of Sentenial Structure. Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27, 79-97

Peter Gärdenfors Peter Gärdenfors

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An evolutionary cybernetics perspective on language and coordination

Joachim De Beule and Kevin Stadler. 2014. An evolutionary cybernetics perspective on language and coordination. New Ideas in Psychology, 32,...

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