Cover -- Contents -- General Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Pains of Being Owenians/Chomskyans/Cartesians at Heart -- 2. My Beloved Monster -- 3. The Dead End of Communication -- 4. On True Homologues -- 5. Computational Homology -- 6. Introducing Computational Evo Devo -- 7. Other Minds -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendix: On Complexity Issues -- References -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O
PR -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Summary
This is a book about language as a species-typical trait of humans. It argues that language is not so exceptional after all, as according to the authors it is just the human version of a rather common and conservative organic system that they refer to as the Central Computational Complex
