PLoS Biology (Feb 2015)

Language did not spring forth 100,000 years ago.

  • Philip Lieberman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002064
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
p. e1002064

Abstract

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In response to an Essay by Johan Bolhuis and co-authors, Phillip Lieberman contends that rather than arising from a key recent innovation ("merge"), language arose by gradual evolution of ancient capabilities.