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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]
  • 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]

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