It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

In this remarkable book Adrian Desmond and James Moore, world authorities on Darwin,
give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution …

The origin of our capacity for language is a complex topic, requiring input from many
disparate fields, from linguistics to paleoanthropology. Specialists in any one field are often …

Is conceptual engineering feasible? Answering that question requires a theory of semantic
change, which is sometimes thought elusive. Fortunately, much is known about semantic …

Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science, especially nowadays,
with the growing popularity of evolutionary psychologies. Yet, until now, his contribution to …

In the 1940s, the 'modern synthesis'(MS) of Darwinism and genetics cast genetic mutation
and recombination as the source of variability from which environmental events naturally …

With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek A number of important developments and
discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century …

My primary aim in this chapter is to be provocative, hoping to arouse further discussion of
concepts and positions that deserve more attention than they have received either in the …

Structured meaning-signal mappings, ie, mappings that preserve neighborhood
relationships by associating similar signals with similar meanings, are advantageous in an …

The playback experiment–the playing back of recorded animal sounds to the animals in
order to observe their responses–has twice become central to celebrated researches on non …