Quotes About Evolution Of Language

#1. The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

Julian Jaynes

#2. We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

Terence McKenna

#3. Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.

Susan Blackmore

#4. It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

Richard Leakey

#5. The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

Lance Parkin

#6. There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about more than that ... it's an emotive language, an aesthetic. Skill is an aspect, but it's what you do with that skill, or say with that skill, that matters.

Vinnie Colaiuta

#7. Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Kenneth R. Miller

#8. Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

#9. What may be less familiar is the idea that the evolution of the conventions of our language might involve what Charles Darwin called "artificial selection.

Daniel Cloud

#10. Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time ... by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#12. Teilhard merely seems to set the problem of man, as the utopian sees it, on lofty heights; yet, hi terminology, which mixes archeology, sociology, biology, astronomy, and a vulgarized theology, can, in fact, be translated at every turn into the language of collectivism and of totalitarian polices.

Thomas Molnar

#13. Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Daniel Dennett

#14. As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

Jon Stewart

#15. The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

Jason Calacanis

#16. At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

Christine Kenneally

#17. Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

Terence McKenna

#18. There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

Jonathan Haidt

#19. Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#20. But there is no agency in evolution; it is inadvertent. We survived, modified, and multiplied, just like any animal alive today, and out of the wildly dodgem course we took, language arose.

Christine Kenneally

#21. If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits.

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

#22. And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool
but only to himself, of course.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

William Irwin Thompson

#24. The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

Charles Darwin

#25. Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Jean Berko Gleason

#26. Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Gene Wolfe

#27. In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

Jimenez Lai

#28. morning I was at work in the Labor Department

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#29. Human spoken language seems to be
adventitious. The exploitation of organ systems with other functions for communication in humans is also indicative of the comparatively recent evolution of our linguistic abilities.

Carl Sagan

#30. If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

Dean Falk

#31. he pays money to lift weights at the gym, so why not lift a few boxes for free? Have

Liane Moriarty

#32. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.

Jo Walton

#33. I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.

Jack Foster