Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language
... See more"The Symbolic Species" (1997) Terrence Deacon, a biological anthropologist, argues in his book "The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain" that the human brain and language co-evolved, each influencing the development of the other. He posits that the use of symbolic language placed unique demands on the brain, driving its
comment une langue des signes primitive a pu évoluer en discours – une théorie que nombre de psycholinguistes classiques n’entérinent pas.
Vilayanur Ramachandran • Le cerveau fait de l'esprit : Enquête sur les neurones miroirs (Quai des Sciences) (French Edition)
Lewicki took this as evidence for the theory that human speech evolved to make best use of the existing encoding scheme of the auditory system.9