Language and life history: Not a new perspective
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (3):296-297 (2006)
| Abstract | The uniqueness of human cognition and language has long been linked to systematic changes in developmental timing. Selection for postnatal skeletal ossification resulted in progressive prolongation of universal patterns of primate growth, lengthening infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Language emerged as communication increased in complexity within and between communities rather than from selection for some unique features of childhood or adolescence, or both. | |||||||||
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