Paul Broca and the Evolutionary Genetics of Cerebral Asymmetry
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement(2012)
摘要
In 1873, within two years of the publication ofThe Descent of Man, Friedrich Max Mueller wrote:There is one difficulty which Mr Darwin has not sufficiently appreciated … There is between the whole animal kingdom on the one side, and man, even in his lowest state, on the other, a barrier which no animal has ever crossed, and that barrier is – Language … If anything has a right to the name of specific difference, it is language, as we find it in man, and in man only … If we removed the name of specific difference from our philosophic dictionaries, I should still hold that nothing deserves the name of man except what is able to speak … a speaking elephant or an elephantine speaker could never be called an elephant.' and (quoting Schleicher) ‘If a pig were ever to say to me, “I am a pig” it would ipso facto cease to be a pig’.
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cerebral asymmetry,evolutionary genetics
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