23.5345, Books: Computational Phenotypes: Balari Ravera, Lorenzo

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:19:14
From: Helen Boyd [helen.boyd at oup.com]
Subject: Computational Phenotypes: Balari Ravera, Lorenzo

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 Title: Computational Phenotypes 
Subtitle: Towards an Evolutionary Developmental Biolinguistics 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199665471.do 

Author: Sergio Balari Ravera
Author: Guillermo Lorenzo

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199665464 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199665471 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 29.99

Abstract:

This book confronts the hotly debated claim that language is a species
specific trait of humans. It also considers the notion that disentangling the
evolutionary history of language is one of science's hardest problems.
Building on the recent conceptual breakthroughs of the EvoDevo paradigm,
Balari and Lorenzo argue that language is not so exceptional after all. It is,
rather, just the human version of a fairly common and conservative organic
system which they call the Central Computational Complex. The authors also
propose that interspecies variation of this organ is restricted to (i)
accessible memory resources, and (ii) patterns of external connectivity, both
being the result of perturbations on the system underlying its development.
The book, written accessibly for both biologists and linguists, offers a fresh
perspective on language as a naturally evolved phenomenon.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Historical Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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