Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2006 - Volume 29, Issue 04  


Open Peer Commentary

A long way to understanding cultural evolution

Werner Mende a1 and Kathleen Wermke a2
a1 Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, 10117 Berlin, Germany. mende@bbaw.de
a2 Center for Pre-Speech Development and Developmental Disorders, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, 97070 Würzburg, Germany. wermke_k@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Abstract

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.

(Published Online November 9 2006)