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- The human capacity for language has long been seen as too complex to have evolved through natural selection alone. While Darwin argued that sexual selection could explain exaggerated traits, this does not fit with language since the sexes do not differ greatly in ability. - The author argues that language capacity evolved through adaptation to a symbolic cultural environment, or "artificial niche", over a long period of hundreds of thousands or millions of years, shaping human brains and social abilitie
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- lapaupierenoire
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- EN