The Birth and Evolution of Symbolic Information

Proceedings

José Monserrat Neto¹ 

[1] Department of Computer Sciences, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras 37200-900, Brazil;

关键词: language;    evolution;    symbolic system;    emergence;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings47010019

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This work presents the main points of Deacon’s theory about the emergence of human language, which are summarized as follows: (1) a relaxed selection processes with the evolution of cooperative social life; (2) the development of first simple symbolic information systems of earlier hominids; (3) their long evolution to language over 2 million years, in a bio-cultural co-evolution of both language and the brain. It examines the main foundations of Deacon’s theory, how these have been deepened gradually, and the hypotheses concerning the first symbolic systems and possible ways that they evolved to language and human species.

【 授权许可】

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