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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
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“Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!”
― Terrence W. Deacon, The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
tags: children, cognitive-science, developmental-psychology, evolution, language-acquisition, language-and-evolution, language-learning, linguistics
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