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| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
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| 1987 | - | Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things - Lakoff | :: | 25 |
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| 2003 | - | Typology and universals - Croft | :: | 24 |
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| 1977 | - | Evolution and tinkering - Jacob | :: | 9 |
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| 1994 | - | Patterns in the mind: language and human nature - Jackendoff | :: | 5 |
| 1988 | - | The `no negative evidence' problem: How do children avoid constructing an overly general grammar - Bowerman | :: | 5 |
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| 1993 | - | The emergence of language - Savage-Rumbaugh,Rumbaugh | :: | 4 |
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| 1996 | - | Evolutionary Principles and the Emergence of Syntax - Schoenemann,Wang | :: | 3 |
| 1990 | - | Neocortical development and social structure in Primates - Sawaguchi,Kudo | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | The Dawn of Human Culture - Klein,Edgar | :: | 3 |
| 1984 | - | Organum ex machina - Wang | :: | 3 |
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| 1978 | - | Linguistic universals as evidence for empiricism - Sampson | :: | 2 |
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| 1990 | - | The cost of a large brain - Smith | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | Hominid Paleoneurology - Falk | :: | 2 |
| 1972 | - | Teaching language to an ape - Premack,Premack | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Acquisition, generalization, and discrimination reversal of a natural concept - Herrnstein | :: | 2 |
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| 1988 | - | Human brain evolution: I - Deacon | :: | 1 |
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| 1988 | - | Artificial Language comprehension in dolphins and sea lions: The essential cognitive skills - Schusterman,Gisinger | :: | 1 |
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| 1991 | - | Five exaptations in speech: Reducing the arbitrariness of the constraints on language - Kingston | :: | 1 |
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| 1991 | - | Frontal-lobe contribution to recency judgements - Milner,Corsi,Leonard | :: | 1 |
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| 1990 | - | Memory for frequency in rats: Role of the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex - Kesner | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | On the nature and scope of featural representations of word meaning - McRae,de Sa,Seidenberg | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Enhanced discriminability at the phonetic boundaries for the place feature in macaques [Mar] - Kuhl | :: | 1 |
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| 1995 | - | The organization of neocortex in mammals: are species differences really so different - Krubitzer | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | The Wisdom of the Bones: in Search of Human Origins - Walker,Shipman | :: | 1 |
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| 1982 | - | Role of architectonics and connections in the study of primate brain evolution - Galaburda,Pandya | :: | 1 |
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| 1991 | - | Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex [Jan-Feb] - Felleman,Van Essen | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Vocal communication in the domestic chicken: II - Marler | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Human Neuroanatomy - Carpenter,Sutin | :: | 1 |
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| 1988 | - | Language, intelligence, and rule-governed behavior - Lieberman | :: | 1 |
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