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The hominid tool-language connection: Some missing evolutionary links?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

A. Maryanski
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521. alexmary@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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This commentary criticizes Wilkins & Wakefield's thesis that the neurological precursors of language provide a cognitive Rubicon to linguistically divide human from nonhuman primates. A causal model of their theory is presented, followed by a discussion of the relationship between brain expansion and tool use, Broca's area and the parietaloccipital-temporal junction (POT).

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