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Some major transitions in evolution (such as the origin of multicellular organisms or that of social animals) occurred a number of times, whereas others (the origin of the genetic code, or language) seem to have been unique events. One must be cautious with the word ‘unique’, however. Due to a lack ...

It is difficult to gain an understanding of language since we do not know how it is processed in the brain. Many areas of the human brain are involved in language- related activities, including syntactic operations. Aspects of the language faculty have significant heritability. There seems to have b ...

Francis Crick called Gerald Edelman's "Neural Darwiniam" Neural Edelmanism because he could not identify any units of evolution, i.e. entities that multiply and have hereditary variation. Whilst a sufficient condition for the production of adaptation is to satisfy George Price's equation, a conditio ...