Neo-Darwinian accounts of the evolution of language: 3. Questions about their evidential bases, logic and rhetoric

Language and Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-46

  Botha, Rudolf P ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 0032397021     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5309(97)00032-3     Document Type: Article

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