Author: Derek Bickerton

“What this book proposes to do, ” writes Derek Bickerton, “is to stand the conventional wisdom of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing clever enough to invent lan …

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on syntax in fields ranging from linguistics to neurology.Syntax is arguably the most …

How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive? Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing about language evolution, Derek …

A neuroscientist and a linguist show how evolution could have given rise to structured language.A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language …

Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk, " the …