Tuesday, May 26, 2009

de novo establishment...

In case you haven't seen the de novo zebra finch study yet...

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature07994.html

In a way, these findings just confirm (at least insofar as birdsong analogizes to language) that everyone has always been at least partly right. It highlights, though, that what we need in order for "partly encoded genetically" structures to "emerge" is - naturally - the use of language for communication!

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