Genetics and evolution of vocal learning and language
Reading list
Feb 4:
Language Evolution (Uriagereka)
Required
reading
Hauser, Marc D., Noam Chomsky, and W. Tecumseh
Fitch. 2002. The faculty of language. Science 198.5598: 1569–1579.
Optional
reading
Uriagereka, J. 2008
Chapter 7 "Reinterpreting the Chomsky Hierarchy" In: Syntactic
Anchors: On Semantic Structuring. pp. 225-265. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press.
Feb 11: Communication and vocal learning (Wilkinson)
Required
reading
Boughman JW & Moss CF 2003
Social sounds: vocal learning and development of mammal and bird calls. In
Megela-Simmons, A, Popper, AN, & Fay, R (eds) Acoustic Communication.
Springer-Verlag. pp. 138-224.
Optional
reading
Crockford C,
Herbinger I, Vigilant L, et al. 2004 Wild chimpanzees produce
group-specific calls: a case for vocal learning? ETHOLOGY 110 (3): 221-243.
Foote AD,
Griffin RM, Howitt D, Larsson L, Miller PJO, et al. 2006 Killer whales are
capable of vocal learning. Biology Letters 2: 509–512.
Janik VM
2000 Whistle matching in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Science 289: 1355–1357. 568–573.
Janik VM, Slater
PJB 1997 Vocal learning in mammals. Advances in the Study of Behavior 26:
59–99.
McComb, K. and
Semple, S. 2005 Coevolution of vocal communication and sociality in
primates. Biology Letters 1:381-385.
Mercado E,
Herman LM, Pack AA 2005 Song copying by humpback whales: themes and
variations. Animal Cognition 8: 93–102.
Poole JH, Tyack
PL, Stoeger-Horwath AS, Watwood S 2005 Elephants are capable of
vocal learning. Nature 434: 455–456.
Feb 18:
Computational approaches to studying communication (Reggia)
Required
reading
Wagner, K., Reggia, J.A., Uriagereka, J. and
Wilkinson, G.S. 2003 Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and
language. Adaptive Behavior 11:37-69.
Feb 25: Methods for studying the genetic basis of behavior
(Wilkinson)
Required
reading
Fitzpatrick, M.J., Ben-Shahar, Y., Smid, H.M.,
Vet, L.E.M., Robinson, G.E. and Sokolowski, M.B. 2005 Candidate
genes for behavioral ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:96-104.
Vasemagi A, Primmer CR 2005
Challenges for identifying functionally important genetic variation: the
promise of combining complementary research strategies. Molecular Ecology
14: 3623-3642.
Optional
reading
McVean G,
Spencer CCA 2006 Scanning the human genome for signals of selection
CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT 16: 624-629.
Nielsen R,
Hellmann I, Hubisz M, et al. 2007 Recent and ongoing selection in
the human genome. NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS 8: 857-868.
Teshima KM, Coop
G, Przeworski M 2006 How reliable are empirical genomic scans for
selective sweeps? GENOME RESEARCH 16: 702-712.
March 3: FoxP2 in humans (Carrie and Kat)
Required reading
Lai, C. S. L., S. E. Fisher, J. A. Hurst, F.
Vargha-Khadem, and A. P. Monaco. 2001. A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a
severe speech and language disorder. Nature 413:519-523.
Marcus, G.F. and Fisher, S.E. 2003
FOXP2 in focus: what can genes tell us about speech and language? Trends
in Cognitive Sciences 7:257-262.
Vargha-Khadem F, Gadian DG, Copp A, Mishkin M
(2005) FOXP2 and the neuroanatomy of speech and language. Nature Reviews
Neuroscience 6: 131–138.
Optional
reading
Bruce
HA, Margolis RL (2002) FOXP2: novel exons, splice variants, and CAG repeat
length stability. Hum Genet 111:136 –144.
Enard, W., M. Przeworski, S. E. Fisher, C. S. L. Lai, V.
Wiebe, T. Kitano, A. P. Monaco, and S. Paabo. 2002. Molecular evolution of
FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language. Nature 418:869-872.
Ferland RJ, Cherry TJ, Preware PO, Morrisey EE, Walsh
CA (2003) Characterization of Foxp2 and Foxp1 mRNA and protein in the
developing and mature brain. J Comp Neurol 460:266 –279.
Krause, J., Lalueza-Fox, C., Orlando, L.,
Enard, W., Green, R.E., Burbano, H.A., Hublin, J.-J., HŠnni, C., Fortea, J., de
la Rasilla, M., Bertranpetit, J., Rosas, A., and PŠŠbo, S. (2007). The derived FOXP2 variant of modern humans was shared with
neandertals. Current Biology
17:1908-1912.
Liegeois F, Baldeweg T, Connelly A, Gadian DG,
Mishkin M, et al. (2003) Language fMRI abnormalities associated with FOXP2 gene
mutation. Nature Neuroscience 6: 1230–1237.
MacDermot KD, Bonora E, Sykes N, Coupe AM, Lai CS,
Vernes SC, Vargha-Khadem F, McKenzie F, Smith RL, Monaco AP, Fisher SE (2005)
Identification of FOXP2 truncation as a novel cause of developmental speech and
language deficits. Am J Hum Genet 76:1074 –1080.
Mizutani, A., Matsuzaki, A., Momi, M.Y., Fujita, E.,
Tanabe, Y., Momoi, T. 2007 Intracellular distribution of a
speech/language disorder associated FoxP2 mutant. Biochemical and
Biophysical Research Communications 353:869-874.
Shriberg LD, Ballard KJ, Tomblin JB, Duffy JR, Odell
KH, et al. (2006) Speech, prosody, and voice characteristics of a mother and
daughter with a 7;13 translocation affecting FOXP2. Journal of Speech Language
and Hearing Research 49: 500–525.
Spiteri, E.,
Konopka, G., Coppola, G., Bomar, J., Oldham, M., Ou, J., Vernes, S. C., Fisher,
S. E., Ren, B., and Geschwind, D. H. (2007). Identification of the
transcriptional targets of FOXP2, a gene linked to speech and language, in
developing human brain. American Journal of Human Genetics 81, pp. 1144-1157.
Ullman, Michael T., and Elizabeth I. Pierpont. 2005.
Specific Language Impairment is not
specific to language: The Procedural Deficit Hypothesis. Cortex
41.3: 399-433.
Van der Lely, Heather K. 2005.
Grammatically-Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI): Indentifying and Characterising
the G-SLI Group. Frequences 17:
13-19.
Vargha-Khadem,
Faraneh, Kate Watkins, Katie Alcock, Paul Fletcher and Richard
Passingham. 1995. Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family
with a genetically transmitted speech and language disorder. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 92, 930-933.
Vernes, S. C., Spiteri,
E., Nicod, J., Groszer, M., Taylor, J. M., Davies, K. E., Geschwind, D. H., and
Fisher, S. E. (2007). High-Throughput analysis of promoter occupancy reveals
direct neural targets of FOXP2, a gene mutated in speech and language
disorders. American Journal of Human Genetics 81, pp. 1232-1250.
Zhang JZ, Webb DM, Podlaha O (2002) Accelerated protein
evolution and origins of human-specific features: FOXP2 as an example. Genetics
162: 1825–1835.
March 10:
Neurobiology of vocal learning (Sandra and Jason)
Required
reading
Brenowitz EA, Beecher MD 2005 Song
learning in birds: diversity and plasticity, opportunities and challenges.
TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES 28: 127-132.
Wilbrecht L, Nottebohm F
2003 Vocal learning in birds and humans. MENTAL RETARDATION AND
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESEARCH REVIEWS 9: 135-148.
Optional
reading
Agate RJ, Hertel M, Nottebohm F 2007 FnTm2,
a novel brain-specific transcript, is dynamically expressed in the song
learning circuit of the zebra finch. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY 504
(2): 127-148.
Beecher MD, Brenowitz EA
2005 Functional aspects of song learning in songbirds. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY
& EVOLUTION 20: 143-149
Farries MA 2004 The avian song system in
comparative perspective. ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
1016: 61-76.
Feenders, G., Liedvogel, M., Rivas, M., Zapka,
M., Horita, H., Hara, E., Wada, K., Mouritsen, H. and Jarvis, E.D. in
press Molecular mapping of movement-associated areas in the avian brain:
a motor theory for vocal learning origin. (caution: 16 MB!)
Funabiki Y, Konishi M 2003
Long memory in song learning by zebra finches JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 23 (17):
6928-6935.
Gil D, Naguib M, Riebel K, et al. 2006 Early
condition, song learning, and the volume of song brain nuclei in the zebra
finch (Taeniopygia guttata). JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 66 (14): 1602-1612.
Gil-da-Costa
R, Martin A, Lopes MA, Munoz M, Fritz JB, Braun AR 2006
Species-specific calls activate homologs of Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas in the
macaque. Nat Neurosci 9:1064-1070.
Jarvis ED, Ribeiro S, da Silva ML, Ventura D,
Vielliard J, Mello CV 2000 Behaviourally driven gene expression
reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. Nature 406:628-32.
Jarvis, ED, Mello, CV 2000 Molecular mapping
of brain areas involved in parrot vocal communication. Journal of
Comparative Neurology 419:1-31.
Jarvis, E.D. 2004 Learned birdsong and the
neurobiology of human language. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 1016:749-777.
Jarvis, E.D. 2006. Evolution of structures for
song-learning in birds: A synopsis. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52 (Supplement): 85-89.
Jarvis
ED 2006 Evolution of vocal learning systems in birds and humans.
In: Evolution of Nervous Systems. Kaas J (ed). 2:213-228.
Kanwal, J.S. and Rauschecker,
J.P. 2007 Auditory cortex of bats and primates: managing species
specific calls for social communication. Frontiers in Bioscience
12:4621-4640.
Nordby JC, Campbell SE, Beecher MD
2007 Selective attrition and individual song repertoire development in
song sparrows. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 74: 1413-1418.
Phan ML, Pytte CL, Vicario DS 2006 Early
auditory experience generates long-lasting memories that may subserve vocal
learning in songbirds. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 103: 1088-1093.
Prather, J. F., Peters, S., Nowicki, S. & Mooney,
R. 2008 Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for
learned vocal communication. Nature 451:305-310.
Saranathan V, Hamilton D, Powell GVN, et al.
2007 Genetic evidence supports song learning in the three-wattled
bellbird Procnias tricarunculata (Cotingidae). MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 16:
3689-3702.
Theunissen FE, Shaevitz SS
2006 Auditory processing of vocal sounds in birds CURRENT OPINION IN
NEUROBIOLOGY 16: 400-407.
Trevisan, M.A., Mindlin, G.B., and F. Goller
2006 Nonlinear model predicts diverse respiratory patterns.
Physical Review Letters 96: 058103-1-4.
March 24: Fox P2 in birds and other animals (Colin and Carrie)
Required
reading
Scharff C, Haesler S 2005 An
evolutionary perspective on FoxP2: strictly for the birds? Curr Opin Neurobiol
15:694 –703.
White SA, Fisher SE, Geschwind DH, et al.
2006 Singing mice, songbirds, and more: Models for FOXP2 function and
dysfunction in human speech and language. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 26:
10376-10379.
Optional
reading
Fujita, E., Tanabe, Y., Shiota, A., Ueda, M., Suwa, K.,
Momoi, M, and Momoi, T. 2008 Ultrasonic vocalization impairment of
FoxP2 (R552H) knockin mice related to speech-language disorder and abnormality
of Purkinje cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA 105:3117-3122.
Haesler, S., K. Wada, A. Nshdejan, E. E. Morrisey,
T. Lints, E. D. Jarvis, and C. Scharff. 2004. FoxP2 expression in avian vocal
learners and non-learners. Journal of Neuroscience 24:3164-3175.
Haesler, S., Rochefort, C., Georgi, B., Licznerski,
P., Osten, P. and Scharff, C. 2007 Incomplete and inaccurate vocal
imitation after knockdown of FoxP2 in songbird basal ganglia nucleus area
X. PLoS Biology 5:e321-1-13.
Kiya, T., Itoh, Y. and Kubo, T. 2008
Expression of the FoxP homologue in the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Insect Mol. Biol. 17: 53-60.
Li, G., Wang, J. Rossiter, S.J., Jones, G. and Zhang,
S. 2007 Accelerated FoxP2 evolution in echolocating bats. PLoS One
9, e900.
Mello CV, Vicario DS, Clayton DF (1992) Song
presentation induces gene expression in the songbird forebrain. Proc Natl Acad
Sci USA 89:6818 – 6822
Rochefort C, He X,
Scotto-Lomassese S, et al. 2007 Recruitment of FoxP2-expressing
neurons to Area X varies during song development. DEVELOPMENTAL
NEUROBIOLOGY 67 (6): 809-817.
Scharff C,
White SA 2004 Genetic components of vocal learning ANNALS OF THE
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1016: 325-347.
Shu W, Cho JY, Jiang Y, Zhang M, Weisz D, Elder GA,
Schmeidler J, DeGasperi R, Sosa MA, Rabidou D, Santucci AC, Perl D, Morrisey E,
Buxbaum JD (2005) Altered ultrasonic vocalization in mice with a disruption in
the Foxp2 gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:9643–9648.
Teramitsu I, Kudo LC, London SE, Geschwind DH,
White SA (2004) Parallel FoxP1 and FoxP2 expression in songbird and human brain
predicts functional interaction. J Neurosci 24:3152–3163.
Teramitsu I & White SA (2006) FoxP2
regulation during undirected singing in adult songbirds. J Neurosci
26:7390-7394.
Webb DM, Zhang J (2005) FoxP2 in song-learning
birds and vocal-learning mammals. Journal of Heredity 96: 212–216.
March 31:
Modularity and cognition (Taylor, Mark and Kat)
Required
reading
Barrett, H.C. and
Kurzban, R. 2006 Modularity in Cognition: Framing the Debate. Psychological
Review 113:3, 628
Calabretta, R. and Parisi, D. 2005
Evolutionary connectionism and mind/brain modularity. In: Modularity:
Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Systems. (eds. W.
Callebaut and D. Rasskin-Gutman) pp. 309-330.
Optional
reading
Butterfill, S. 2007 What Are Modules and What Is
Their Role in Development?. Mind & Language 22:4, 450–473
Callebaut, W. 2005 The ubiquity of modularity.
In: Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Systems.
(eds. W. Callebaut and D. Rasskin-Gutman) pp. 3-28.
Pinker, S. (2005) So How Does the Mind Work? Mind & Language, 20: 1-24.
Sarnecki, J. (2006) Developmental objections to
evolutionary modularity. Biology & Philosophy, 22, 529-546.
Velichovsky, BM 2005 Modularity of
cognitive organization: why it is so appealing and why it is wrong. In:
Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Systems.
(eds. W. Callebaut and D. Rasskin-Gutman) pp. 353-382.
Wagner, G.P., Mezey, J. and Calabretta, R.
2005 Natural selection and the origin of modules. In: Modularity:
Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Systems. (eds. W.
Callebaut and D. Rasskin-Gutman) pp. 3-28.
April 7:
Computational approaches to studying language (Thuan and Derek)
Required
reading
Kvasnicka, V., Pospichal, J. 1999. An emergence of
coordinated communication in populations of agents. Artificial Life, 5: 319-342
Nowak, Martin A., Natalia L. Komarova, and
Partha Niyogi. 2002. Computational and evolutionary aspects of language. Nature
417: 611-617.
Optional
reading
Baker,
M.C. 2005 The innate endowment for language: underspecified or
overspecified? In: The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents. eds.,
P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, and S. Stich. pp. 156-174. Oxford,
Oxford University Press.
Fontanari, J., Perlovsky, L. 2007. Evolving
compositionality in evolutionary language games. IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation, 11: 758-769.
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critical period for language acquisition. Cognition 40(3): 159-202.
Hurford, J.R. 2000. The Emergence of
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Studdert-Kennedy and J. Hurford, 219-230. Cambridge: CUP.
Kirby, S. 2000.
Syntax without natural selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary
in a population of learners. In The Evolutionary Emergence of Language:
Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form, eds. C. Knight, M. Studdert-Kennedy, and J. R. Hurford, 303-323.
Cambridge: CUP.
Kirby, S. 2001. Spontaneous evolution of linguistic
structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and
irregularity. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 5:102-110
Lorenzo, G. and Longa, V. 2003 Minimizing the genes
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language. Lingua 113, Issue 7.
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2001 Evolution of universal grammar. Science 291:114-118.
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April 14:
Language Evolution (Kent, Sandra and Taylor)
Required
reading
Okanoya, K. 2007 Language evolution and an emergent
property. CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY 17: 271-276.
Szamado, S. and Szathmary, E. 2006
Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution
21:555-561.
Optional
reading
Arbib MA 2005 From monkey-like action recognition
to human language: an evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics. Behav Brain
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2000. How protolanguage became language. In The Evolutionary Emergence of
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Calvin, W. H., and D.
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Human Brain. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Camps, M., and J. Uriagereka. 2006. The Gordian Knot
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University of Barcelona.
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A. 1999. The Origins of Complex Language.
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Carstairs-McCarthy,
A. 2000. The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: An impediment to
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Carstairs-McCarthy, A. 2005. The
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Fitch WT, Hauser MD 2004 Computational
constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate. Science 303:377-380.
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2005 The evolution of music in comparative perspective. ANNALS OF
THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1060: 29-49.
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Pepperberg, I.M. 2005. An avian perspective on
language evolution: implications of simultaneous development of vocal and physical
object combinations by a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus). In Language
Origins, ed. M. Tallerman, 239-261. Oxford: OUP.
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo and Juan Uriagereka. Forthcoming.
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Wynn,
Thomas, and Frederick L. Coolidge. 2004. The expert Neanderthal
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April 21:
Human Brain Evolution (Jason and Derek)
Required
reading
Fisher SE, Marcus GF (2006) The eloquent
ape: genes, brains and the evolution of language. Nature Reviews Genetics 7:
9–20.
Optional
reading
Aiello, L.C. and R.I.M. Dunbar
1993 Neocortex size, group size and the evolution of language.
Current Anthropology 34:184-193.
Aiello, L.C. and P. Wheeler
1995 The expensive tissue hypothesis. Current Anthropology
36:199-221
Barton, R.A. and P.H. Harvey 2000
Mosaic evolution of brain structure in mammals. Nature
405:1055-1058.
Byrne, R.W. and N. Corp 2004
Neocortex size predicts deception rate in primates. 271:1693-1699.
Caceres, M., Lachuer, J., Zapala, M.A., Redmond, J.C.,
Kudu, L., Geschwind, D.H, Lockhart, D.J., Preuss, T.M. and Barlow, C.
2003 Elevated gene expression levels distinguish human from
non-human primate brains. PNAS 100:13030-13035.
Dunbar, R.I.M.
1993 Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in
humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16:681-735.
Evans, P.D., et al. 2005 Microcephalin, a gene regulating brain size, continues to evolve
adaptively in humans. Science 309:1717-1720.
Evans, P.D., Mekel-Bobrov, N., Vallender, E.J., Hudson,
R.R., Lahn, B.T. 2006 Evidence that the adaptive allele of the
brain size gene microcephalin introgressed
into Homo sapiens from an archaic
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Interspecific allometry of the brain and brain regions in parrots
(Psittaciformes): comparisons with other birds and primates. Brain Behav Evol
65:40-59.
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change for speech? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13.4: 740-741.
McCollum, M.A., Sherwood, C.C., Vinyard, C.J.,
Lovejoy, C.O., and Schachat, F. 2005 Of muscle-bound crania and
human brain evolution: the story behind the MYH16 headlines. J Human Evol 50:232-236.
Mekel-Bobrov, N., et al. 2005
Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo
sapiens. Science 309:1720-1722.
Mekel-Bobrov, N., et al. 2007 Response to
comments by Timpson et al. and Yu et al. Science 317:1036.
Preuss, T.M., Caceres, M., Oldham, M.C.,
Geschwind, D.H. 2004 Human brain evolution: insights from
microarrays. Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 850-860.
Roth & Dicke,
2005 Evolution of the brain and intelligence, Trends in Cognitive
Science, 9, 250-257
Timpson, N., Heron, J., Smith, G.D., Enard, W.
2007 Comment on papers by Evans et al. and Mekel-Bobrov et al. on
evidence for positive selection of MCPH1 and ASPM. Science 317:1036.
Weaver, A.H. 2005 Reciprocal evolution of
the cerebellum and neocortex in fossil humans. PNAS 102:3576-3580.
May 5:
Gene-culture coevolution (Beth and Colin)
Required
reading
Cavalli-Sforza,
LL 1997 Genes, peoples, and languages. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 94 (15): 7719-7724.
Hunley, KL;
Cabana, GS; Merriwether, DA; et al.
2007 A formal test of linguistic
and genetic coevolution in Native Central and South America. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY, 132 (4): 622-631.
Optional
reading
Atkinson, QD;
Meade, A; Venditti, C; et al.
2008 Languages evolve in
punctuational bursts. SCIENCE, 319
(5863): 588-588.
Barbujani,
G 1997 DNA variation and language affinities. American Journal of Human Genetics 61:1011-1014.
Belle, EMS;
Barbujani, G 2007 Worldwide analysis of multiple
microsatellites: Language diversity has a detectable influence on DNA
diversity. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 133 (4): 1137-1146.
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Castro, L. and
Toro, MA 2004 The evolution of culture: From primate
social learning to human culture. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101:10235-10240.
Curran, D;
O'Riordan, C 2007 The effects of cultural learning in
populations of neural networks.
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