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Abstract

There are no fossils to show how language evolved. But evolutionary game theory is revealing how some of the defining features of human language could have been shaped by natural selection.

@article{pinker00nature,
  author={Steven Pinker},
  title={Survival of the Clearest},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2000},
  volume={404},
  pages={441-442},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/pinker00nature.html}
}