From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 04:36:58 MDT
[Joe Dees]
2) Many of his citations have to do with both his more legitimate (although hotly disputed and currently out of favor academic work...
[Blunderov]
Seems to me that the discovery of the FOXp2 gene puts Chomsky firmly back at the cutting edge?
Warm regards
[Joe Dees]
You might wanna check out UNIQUELY HUMAN by Philip H. Lieberman before you give undeserved credit to the hypothesis of the genetic language metamutation to Noam Chomsky.
[rhinoceros]
As important as Lieberman's work in revising Chomsky's hypothesis is, the scientific dispute between "one Darwinian mutation - one gene responsible for language" (Chomsky) vs "Darwinian evolution of the preexisting motor system" (Lieberman) is an ongoing one which we cannot resolve here.
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