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Science 22 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5598, pp. 1565 - 1566
DOI: 10.1126/science.1079320
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Perspectives

LINGUISTICS:
Noam's Ark

Thomas Bever and Mario Montalbetti

We view language as a central component of being human, yet debates still rage about what language is. In their Perspective, Bever and Montalbetti dissect a review in this issue by Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch that seeks to explain how we can empirically study the evolutionary basis of human language.

The authors are in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: tgb{at}u.arizona.edu; mariom{at}u.arizona.edu

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