On the Origins of Symbolic Thought
Per Aage Brandt -- Douglas McAdam -- Francis Steen

• Conceiving the idea: the role of language evolution in the origins of symbolic thinking
  • 2002-07-24 The phoneme revolution
  • 2002-07-25 Origins of grammar
    

• Background
• The cognitive functions of language by Peter Carruthers (BBS Online preprint for commentary)
• Laura Michaelis on the current state of construction grammar (abstract)
• Becoming human project site
• Cognition, Brain, and Art project site, with links
• Paleolithic art
  
  
• The current "language gene" debate in Nature
• Lai et al (2001). A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder. Full text (pdf).
  • Dennis, Carina (2001). Genetically speaking. (editorial). Full text (pdf)
  • Pinker, Steven (2001). Talk of genetics and vice versa. Full text (pdf).
  • Editorial (2001). In search of language genes. Full text (pdf)
• Enard et al (2002). Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language.
  • Abstract (html) and full text (pdf)
  • Language gene found (announcement)
  • 2002-08-14 "First language gene discovered" (BBC Online)