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A long way to understanding cultural evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Werner Mende  and
Kathleen Wermke
Werner Mende*
Affiliation:
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Kathleen Wermke*
Affiliation:
Center for Pre-Speech Development and Developmental Disorders, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, 97070 Würzburg, Germany
*
mende@bbaw.de
wermke_k@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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Understanding cultural evolution is one of the most challenging and indispensable scientific tasks for the survival of humankind on our planet. This task demands, besides an adoption of theories and models from biological evolution, theories for culture-specific processes as well. Language evolution and language acquisition offer interesting objects of study in this respect.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 358 - 359
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006