Upcoming sessions(2008)

  • 12th. Feb.: CafeLitt First Photo awards and Second Birthday. A Party till midnight
  • 19th Feb.: From Margine to center by Amir Khadir
  • 26 Feb.: Global Financial crisis 2008. The end of an era?! by Ali Paknejad
  • Sunday 8th. March: BOOKCLUB, Disgrace By J.M.Coetzee

30.5.08

CafeLitt 74: Cognitive evolution, The evolution of Language


Subject: Cognitive evolution, The evolution of Language
Date: 5 Jun 2008, 20:00
Presented by: Shahin Zanganehpour

Biological evolutionary process, as conceived of by Charles Darwin, is considered a global process, which affects all living things on this planet including humans. The end state of the evolutionary process for the human brain is a mysterious and complex collection of cognitive capacities. Language, which is thought to be uniquely human capacity, will be discussed in brief and some evidence regarding its evolutionary basis will be presented.

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