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Chris Knight

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http://scienceandrevolution.org/

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Professor Knight gained his PhD in 1987 for a thesis on Claude Lévi-Strauss's four-volume 'Mythologiques'. He became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of East London in 1989. Knight is a founding member of the "Radical Anthropology Group". He is currently a senior research fellow at University College London.

Since 1966, Knight has been exploring the idea that language and symbolic culture emerged in the human species through a process of Darwinian evolution culminating at a certain point in revolutionary change. Becoming human was, according to this theory, a classic instance of a dialectical process, i.e. one in which quantitative change culminates eventually in a qualitative leap.

In 1996, Knight co-founded the EVOLANG series o ...more

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Bruce Nevin responds to 'The Two Chomskys'

[Image: Zellig Harris]

Chris Knight’s explanation for why Noam’s successive models of language are asocial, abstract, and impracticable may have merit. Who can say? Attribution of intent is a dicey business. But there are other sources of the abstractness and uselessness.

Chris, you said “The essence of science is abstraction.” This is wrong. Science proceeds by generalization from particulars

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	Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture 4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics 3.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolution of Culture: A Historical and Scientific Overview by Chris Knight (Goodreads Author), Robin I.M. Dunbar (Editor), Camilla Power (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form by Chris Knight (Goodreads Author), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Editor), James R. Hurford (Editor) 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Food, That Wine by Chris Knight (Goodreads Author), Angie Macrae, Stacey Metulynsky 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cradle of Language (Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Chris Knight (Goodreads Author), Rudolf P. Botha (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EL RETRATO DRAMÁTICO 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Master Your Mind it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Terrors: The Complete Collection of Horror, Paranormal and Supernatural Stories, a Trilling Anthology 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The scientific community needs to defend itself against political interference, no matter how cleverly it is concealed. If science is to come first, we don’t have a choice as to whether to become politically active. If you’re inactive, you’re colluding in someone else’s politics.”
― Chris Knight, Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics

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