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Language and kinship: We need some Darwinian theory here

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2010

Chris Knight
Chris Knight
Affiliation:
Professor of Anthropology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. [email protected]
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Abstract

Common to language and kinship is digital format. This is a discovery, not an innate feature of human cognition. But to produce a testable model, we need Darwinian behavioural ecology.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 389 - 390
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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