Ian Tattersall
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ian Tattersall is involved.
Articles
2013 Paleoanthropology and language New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 129–146 | Article
Unwritten language leaves no material traces, so whether or not a particular fossil hominid possessed language must be inferred from proxy evidence. This leaves a great deal of room for argument. My contention here is that the intimate feedback between language and symbolic cognition strongly… read more
2004 8. Human cognition: An evolutionary perspective Mind and Causality, Peruzzi, Alberto (ed.), pp. 131–148 | Article