Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)
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The Evolution of Language
McCarthy takes the Chomsky side of this debate and devotes a good chunk of the essay to talking about why I had a couple questions. This other aspect of the essay that we haven't really talked about, his dismissal of the view that language is an evolutionary adaptation that it has been selected for. "I think only in as much as if it's adaptive, that means that it was adapted for and would have occurred slowly," McCarthy says.
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