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Lending a hand
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Abstract
The precise manner in which language serves its communicative function suggests that natural selection, rather than exaptation or reappropriation, played the major role in its evolution. Natural selection is more readily invoked, I suggest, if it is assumed that language originated as a system of manual gestures, and later switched to an oral mode.
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- Open Peer Commentary
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- Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue 1: An International Journal of Current Research and Theory with Open Peer Commentary , March 1995 , pp. 185 - 186
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995