Neanderthal language? Just-so stories take center stage

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Berwick, Robert C ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^b   Tattersall, Ian ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Risk Eraser   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic admixture; Human evolution; Language contact; Language evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885360805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00671     Document Type: Note

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