LENDING A HAND

Authors
CORBALLIS MC
Citation
Mc. Corballis, LENDING A HAND, Behavioral and brain sciences, 18(1), 1995, pp. 185-186
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
18
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
185 - 186
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1995)18:1<185:LAH>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
The precise manner in which language serves its communicative function suggests that natural selection, rather than exaptation or reappropri ation, played the major role in its evolution. Natural selection is mo re readily invoked, I suggest, if it is assumed that language originat ed as a system of manual gestures, and later switched to an oral mode.