Tag: evolutionary biology
Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Understand How Language Works
As a linguist I dread the question, “what do you do?”, because when I answer “I’m a linguist” the inevitable follow-up question is: “How many languages do you speak?” That, of course, is not the point. While learning languages is a wonderful thing to do, academic linguistics is the scientific study of language.
Once Upon a Time… On the Origin of Fairytales
Researchers uncover the origins of fairytales through evolutionary biology's methods