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10 May 2026

  • curprev 21:0621:06, 10 May 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 2,407 bytes +1,140 areas of the human brain — Broca's and Wernicke's areas — are adjacent to regions controlling sequential motor actions. The hypothesis that language is a cognitive exaptation of action-planning circuits remains contested, but it illustrates a general principle: complex novel functions rarely arise from dedicated new structures. They arise from the recombination of existing ones. == Exaptation and the Adaptationist Program == Exaptation dissolves the false dichotomy between ''adapted for'' a...

12 April 2026

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