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Science 14 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5904, pp. 1057 - 1059
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167437
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Perspectives

BEHAVIOR:
A Biolinguistic Agenda

Marc D. Hauser1 and Thomas Bever2

Neurobiology and genetics are helping to generate insights about the evolution of language.

1Department of Psychology, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: mdh{at}wjh.harvard.edu

2Departments of Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Science Program University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ 85721, USA.

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