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Did courtship drive the evolution of mind?
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Abstract
The driving force in the evolution of language and the human mind was the advantage gained in courtship by efficient communicators. Ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny may offer an alternative to Donald's picture of the relative origins of language and mimesis. Very recent evidence is pertinent to dating the origin of language.
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