Drawing an analogy between how species came to be and how language has developed overlooks the salient point that language doesn't just happen. Maybe it would be better instead to do it the other way around and find an analogy between how language has developed and how species came about.
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Language Log has been getting very annoyed with this story... and I don't blame them.
ReplyDeleteSee here:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1191