Human Variability and the Origins and Evolution of Language
Bibliographic Collection:
CARTA-Inspired Publication
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Authors: Deacon, TW
Year of Publication: 2017
Book Title: On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion
Chapter: 32
Pagination: 557–564
Publisher: Academic Press
Publication Language: eng
Keywords: Brain evolution; Domestication; Evo-devo; Niche construction; Relaxed selection
Abstract:
In this paper, I argue that relaxed selection—an evolutionary process that contributes to the well-documented effects of gene duplication, diversification, and synergistic gene interactions in evolution—may have also played a significant role in the evolution of the extensive phenotypic plasticity and unprecedented neurological changes in human evolution that support language.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420190-3.00032-6
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