TY - CHAP
T1 - 'Homo' on Flores
T2 - Some early implications for the evolution of language and cognition
AU - Morwood, Michael J
AU - Cogill-Koez, Dorothea
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The Indonesian island of Flores has yielded evidence of a new hominin species, 'Homo floresiensis', and an earlier species currently known from tools only. This chapter reflects on some of the implications the new finds may have for the evolution of language and cognition. In the light of relevant existing patterns of argument about early hominin morphology and behaviour, the Flores finds appear to weaken the argument for "big brains" as a sufficient cause of cognitive and linguistic abilities, to highlight, conversely, the significance of brain reorganisation events in human evolution, and to refocus attention back onto the very dawn of our genus as the point at which interestingly human patterns of communication and cognition are likely to have appeared.
AB - The Indonesian island of Flores has yielded evidence of a new hominin species, 'Homo floresiensis', and an earlier species currently known from tools only. This chapter reflects on some of the implications the new finds may have for the evolution of language and cognition. In the light of relevant existing patterns of argument about early hominin morphology and behaviour, the Flores finds appear to weaken the argument for "big brains" as a sufficient cause of cognitive and linguistic abilities, to highlight, conversely, the significance of brain reorganisation events in human evolution, and to refocus attention back onto the very dawn of our genus as the point at which interestingly human patterns of communication and cognition are likely to have appeared.
KW - Indonesian Languages
KW - Linguistic Processes (incl Speech Production and Comprehension)
UR - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35613905
UR - http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%2092-93
UR - http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YUMrT_Fnoo8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA43
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789027231024
SN - 9789027231055
VL - 1: Evolution, function, nature
T3 - Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS)
SP - 43
EP - 73
BT - Mental States
A2 - C Schalley, Andrea
A2 - Khlentzos, Drew
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands
ER -