The Evolution of Human Languages

by Murray Gell-Mann and John A. Hawkins

Book Overview

Complex adaptive systems are all around us, and include such diverse examples as the immune system, the world economy, and the study of language. The evolution of human languages has been the most recent research activity of the Santa Fe Institute. Among the themes of this research are the search for general principles of complex adaptive systems, their broad implications, and how the study of language contributes to, and learns from, the general...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201525739
• ISBN13: 9780201525731
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.