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Parent topics

• Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. ^[e]
• Language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. ^[e]
• Cognitive evolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. ^[e]
• Vocal learning [r]: The ability of an organism to imitate sounds not inborn to it. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Proto-language [r]: Language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Origin of music [r]: The evolutionary background of the human capacity for music. ^[e]
• Vocal apparatus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• FoxP2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kanzi [r]: Male bonobo at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, famous for his controversial and apparently exceptional cognitive and linguistic abilities (born 1980). ^[e]
• Universal grammer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Human uniqueness [r]: A theoretical concept in evolutionary studies, often used in discussions about the evolution of biological traits found in humans. ^[e]
• Ethnolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description