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Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct" is a great book about language evolution.
Interesting, skip! Thanks for the link. :-)
Interesting article in this Wired Science article about the evolution of language. My favorite notion:
"But what's evolving here isn't the agents" -- the speakers -- "but the language itself. It has its own evolutionary imperative. It wants to be passed on, and finds ways of doing that. We're its hosts."
You can never tell.
Do you really think those 47% of Americans hang out on Wordie, though? ;)
"Our current theory" implies that there was at some point a previous version, or that in the future there will be a different version. I realize you were making a joke, but I feel the need to point this out, since something like 47% of Americans believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
Our current theory of evolution certainly is insulting to the apes.
It's evolution baby!