From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the
... In dealing with the evolution of human language, we are confronted with two fundamental questions. The first is the question of the object of the evolutionary process: what is language? What type of cognitive capacity is it? What is its function? What is the relationship between its function and its ...
... In dealing with the evolution of human language, we are confronted with two fundamental questions. The first is the question of the object of the evolutionary process: what is language? What type of cognitive capacity is it? What is its function? What is the relationship between its function and its ...
Chapter 23: How Humans Evolved
... served, the skull was of a five-year-old individual, still with its milk teeth. While the skull had many apelike features such as a projecting face and a small brain, it had distinctly human features as well—for example, a rounded jaw unlike the pointed jaw of apes. The ventral position of the foram ...
... served, the skull was of a five-year-old individual, still with its milk teeth. While the skull had many apelike features such as a projecting face and a small brain, it had distinctly human features as well—for example, a rounded jaw unlike the pointed jaw of apes. The ventral position of the foram ...
Human Evolution
... shared evolutionary heritage shapes our cultures. It means that despite the impressive differences among cultures, there are powerful underlying similarities as well. Understanding our evolutionary history is vital to cultural anthropologists because it informs us about the things that all humans ha ...
... shared evolutionary heritage shapes our cultures. It means that despite the impressive differences among cultures, there are powerful underlying similarities as well. Understanding our evolutionary history is vital to cultural anthropologists because it informs us about the things that all humans ha ...
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... communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about and attitudes towards life.” In The Extended Mind [1] I extended the “language is an organism” hypothesis of Christiansen [4] and Deacon [5] to culture, and then by extension to technology and science. Because culture is essentially symbolic— ...
... communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about and attitudes towards life.” In The Extended Mind [1] I extended the “language is an organism” hypothesis of Christiansen [4] and Deacon [5] to culture, and then by extension to technology and science. Because culture is essentially symbolic— ...
chapt22_lecture Human Origins
... What is natural selection and what three elements are vital for this? What was Darwin’s contribution to evolution? What have we learned from the fossil record? Explain the fossil, biogeographical, anatomical, and biochemical evidence that supports the theory of evolution by common descent? What are ...
... What is natural selection and what three elements are vital for this? What was Darwin’s contribution to evolution? What have we learned from the fossil record? Explain the fossil, biogeographical, anatomical, and biochemical evidence that supports the theory of evolution by common descent? What are ...
Unit 4 – DNA Technology and Genomics Part II
... When does molecular clock data suggest that the ‘human line’ diverged from the African ape line? Why is there not universal agreement on the precise evolutionary history of the human species? What is there agreement about when considering evolution of the human line? ...
... When does molecular clock data suggest that the ‘human line’ diverged from the African ape line? Why is there not universal agreement on the precise evolutionary history of the human species? What is there agreement about when considering evolution of the human line? ...
EVOLUTION
... – product of mosaic evolution = different body parts change at different rates • Smaller brain resembles apes • Bipedal locomotion resembles humans ...
... – product of mosaic evolution = different body parts change at different rates • Smaller brain resembles apes • Bipedal locomotion resembles humans ...
Homo - Carol Lee Lab
... • One deletion in Homo removes a sensory vibrissae and penile spine enhancer from the human androgen receptor (AR) gene, a molecular change correlated with the anatomical losses of androgen-dependent sensory vibrissae (whiskers) and penile spines (penis spines) in Homo (loss at ~700,000 yrs ago) • A ...
... • One deletion in Homo removes a sensory vibrissae and penile spine enhancer from the human androgen receptor (AR) gene, a molecular change correlated with the anatomical losses of androgen-dependent sensory vibrissae (whiskers) and penile spines (penis spines) in Homo (loss at ~700,000 yrs ago) • A ...
the question is not, "can they talk?
... linguistic and spatial-manipulation abilities gives us reason to believe that language and tool-making skills, for example, do not involve the same cognitive capacities (Wynn, 1985). Assuming this is so, then (a) the capacity to use a language and (b) the capacity to engage in goal-oriented behavior ...
... linguistic and spatial-manipulation abilities gives us reason to believe that language and tool-making skills, for example, do not involve the same cognitive capacities (Wynn, 1985). Assuming this is so, then (a) the capacity to use a language and (b) the capacity to engage in goal-oriented behavior ...
Human evolution: a long way from Darwin and Wallace, or is it
... As the progenitors of man became more and more erect, with their hands and arms more and more modified for prehension and other purposes, with their feet and legs at the same time transformed for firm support and progression, endless other changes of structure would become necessary. The pelvis wou ...
... As the progenitors of man became more and more erect, with their hands and arms more and more modified for prehension and other purposes, with their feet and legs at the same time transformed for firm support and progression, endless other changes of structure would become necessary. The pelvis wou ...
Paleoanthropological aspects of the enigma of Homo
... common among very early hominids. Every previously known case of cultural deposition, he notes, ‘has been attributed to a species of the genus Homo with cranial capacities near the modern human range’ (Dirks et al. 2015). What the Berger research team are confident about is that the deposits were ma ...
... common among very early hominids. Every previously known case of cultural deposition, he notes, ‘has been attributed to a species of the genus Homo with cranial capacities near the modern human range’ (Dirks et al. 2015). What the Berger research team are confident about is that the deposits were ma ...
Musicality: Instinct or Acquired Skill?
... this view, which might be seen as an instantiation of the naturalistic fallacy (Moore, 1903), music is perceived as valuable and worthwhile only to the extent that it is innate, inevitable, and the product of natural selection, and as less valuable to the extent that it is ‘‘merely’’ an acquired ski ...
... this view, which might be seen as an instantiation of the naturalistic fallacy (Moore, 1903), music is perceived as valuable and worthwhile only to the extent that it is innate, inevitable, and the product of natural selection, and as less valuable to the extent that it is ‘‘merely’’ an acquired ski ...
Unit 3 Human Migrations
... found at an archaeological site. How reliable do you think these kinds of evidence are for dating human migrations to different regions in the world? ...
... found at an archaeological site. How reliable do you think these kinds of evidence are for dating human migrations to different regions in the world? ...
darwin`s legacy: a comparative approach to the evolution of human
... regard, evolution in humans has improved their skills for statistical learning and extracting templates. We have also noted that humans and not other primates are able to master recursive grammars. Finally, human language seems to be the only natural system characterized by duality of patterning. Th ...
... regard, evolution in humans has improved their skills for statistical learning and extracting templates. We have also noted that humans and not other primates are able to master recursive grammars. Finally, human language seems to be the only natural system characterized by duality of patterning. Th ...
30 March 2000
... can perform an unparalleled variety of mechanical tasks), whereas many philosophers, linguists and biologists have great difficulties in imagining how language could have arisen by darwinian evolution17-21. A challenge for evolutionary biology, therefore, is to provide a detailed mathematical accoun ...
... can perform an unparalleled variety of mechanical tasks), whereas many philosophers, linguists and biologists have great difficulties in imagining how language could have arisen by darwinian evolution17-21. A challenge for evolutionary biology, therefore, is to provide a detailed mathematical accoun ...
Lecture - University College Dublin
... perhaps, it seems to require no explicit instruction. Parents seem to help their children a bit in many societies by speaking to them with what is called Motherese, but in many other societies this behavior is lacking, and children do just as well at acquiring their language. Even in societies where ...
... perhaps, it seems to require no explicit instruction. Parents seem to help their children a bit in many societies by speaking to them with what is called Motherese, but in many other societies this behavior is lacking, and children do just as well at acquiring their language. Even in societies where ...
III *** A unique evolutionary trajectory 1\\
... The writer seems to have forgotten that already many dinosaurs were walking upright (bipedal) and that their modern descendants, the birds, do the same, as do kangaroos, while there is little evidence in all these groups of an ability to objectivity and critical distance toward the world that surrou ...
... The writer seems to have forgotten that already many dinosaurs were walking upright (bipedal) and that their modern descendants, the birds, do the same, as do kangaroos, while there is little evidence in all these groups of an ability to objectivity and critical distance toward the world that surrou ...
Traditions of Biolinguistics
... music, speech and cognition), translating specialist material into an engrossing narrative casual readers will appreciate. Beginning with a survey of modern theories of the evolution of language, music and thought, Mithen cherry picks ones that lay the groundwork for the book's second (and most subs ...
... music, speech and cognition), translating specialist material into an engrossing narrative casual readers will appreciate. Beginning with a survey of modern theories of the evolution of language, music and thought, Mithen cherry picks ones that lay the groundwork for the book's second (and most subs ...
The Evolution of Language - Linguistics and English Language
... very much the norm among almost all species on the planet, whether it be between animals, insects, plants or bacteria, but language is normally considered to be something very different. Indeed, humans also have communication systems that aren’t language, that seem to share many similarities with co ...
... very much the norm among almost all species on the planet, whether it be between animals, insects, plants or bacteria, but language is normally considered to be something very different. Indeed, humans also have communication systems that aren’t language, that seem to share many similarities with co ...
Homo
... have been found that date as far back as 6 to 7 million years. • These fossils are confusing because they show a mixture of primitive and modern traits. • There are too few of these very old fossils to make certain their connections to australopithecines and humans. ...
... have been found that date as far back as 6 to 7 million years. • These fossils are confusing because they show a mixture of primitive and modern traits. • There are too few of these very old fossils to make certain their connections to australopithecines and humans. ...
The motor system
... understanding of actions (in primates too) – This mirror system can also infer actions that are not directly seen, and can infer intention – This forms a good basis for the development of language from hand and face expressions not directly connected to their instructed meaning – Therefore, the mirr ...
... understanding of actions (in primates too) – This mirror system can also infer actions that are not directly seen, and can infer intention – This forms a good basis for the development of language from hand and face expressions not directly connected to their instructed meaning – Therefore, the mirr ...
Human Evolution - MStew
... Mostly animals on bare walls Subjects were animals favored for their meat and skins Human figures were rarely drawn due to taboos and fears that it would somehow harm ...
... Mostly animals on bare walls Subjects were animals favored for their meat and skins Human figures were rarely drawn due to taboos and fears that it would somehow harm ...
Introduction - CS
... • Linguistics: Human communication . . . includes forms of verbal communication such as speech , written language and sign language . It comprises nonverbal modes that do not invoke language proper, but that nevertheless constitye extremely important aspects of how we communicate . As we interact, w ...
... • Linguistics: Human communication . . . includes forms of verbal communication such as speech , written language and sign language . It comprises nonverbal modes that do not invoke language proper, but that nevertheless constitye extremely important aspects of how we communicate . As we interact, w ...