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Parent topics
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
- Language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
- Cognitive evolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. [e]
- Vocal learning [r]: The ability of an organism to imitate sounds not inborn to it. [e]
Subtopics
- Proto-language [r]: Language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. [e]
- Origin of music [r]: The evolutionary background of the human capacity for music. [e]
- Vocal apparatus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- FoxP2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kanzi [r]: Male bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, famous for his controversial and apparently exceptional cognitive and linguistic abilities (born 1980). [e]
- Universal grammar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human uniqueness [r]: A theoretical concept in evolutionary studies, often used in discussions about the evolution of biological traits found in humans. [e]
- Ethnolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description