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Brain circuits ancient and modern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Stephen F. Walker
Affiliation:
Centre for Physical and Life Sciences, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, England s.walker@psychology.bbk.ac.uk www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk./staff/sfw.html
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Abstract

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I support the application of the “evolution as tinkering” idea to vocalization and emphasize that some of the subcortical parts of the brain circuits used for speech organs retain features common to nonprimate mammals, and in some cases to lower vertebrates, pointing up the importance of cortical evolution as suggested by MacNeilage.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press