The continuing legacy of nature versus nurture in biolinguistics.

Psychon Bull Rev

Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010, Vienna, Austria.

Published: February 2017

Theories of language evolution that separate biological and cultural contributions perpetuate a false dichotomy between nature and nurture. The explanatory power of future theories will depend on acknowledging the reality of gene-culture interaction and how it makes language possible.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333347PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1202-7DOI Listing

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