That discussion of evolution seems to me like he was paraphrasing and criticizing Chomsky's ideas of language evolution. Chomsky has both argued for an innate l

That discussion of evolution seems to me like he was paraphrasing and criticizing Chomsky's ideas of language evolution. Chomsky has both argued for an innate language organ and language acquisition device, and been critical of attempts to explain such a thing in terms of evolution. It's a weird position that the author is right to criticize (if a bit clumsily). http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002134.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002134.h... http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/nov/30/genes-memes-minds/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/nov/30/genes-m...