MORE THAN NATURE NEEDS

The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans a s divine exceptions to natural selection. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but his hypot hesis remained an intriguing guessuntil now. Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing and thinking about lan guage evolu...[Read more]