LECTURES & LITERATURE

    Non-Adaptive Origins of Language

    Non-Adaptive Origins of Language

    Presented by Penn Humanities Forum at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

    October 5, 2011


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    It seems obvious that the human capacity for language is a result of adaptation, our biological nature adjusting to its social and cultural environment. But according to Terrence Deacon, the pioneering theorist of human brain development, this is not the whole story. In his latest work, Deacon argues that the emergence of language actually depended on a reduction rather than an increase of natural selection, and that it might never have occurred without the degeneration and loss of certain innate abilities.


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        University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

        3260 South Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

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        FREE!

        Info Phone: 215-573-8280

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 5, 2011

        Times:

        5-6:30 pm

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