Computational Phenotypes

• Ground-breaking
• Introduces links between linguistics and biology via formal analyses
• Provides a new model for a coherent understanding of the physical, developmental, and evolutionary underpinnings of language

Readership: Linguists and biologists from advanced undergraduate level upwards, as well as cognitive scientists and philosophers.

Sergio Balari, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Fellow Researcher, Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (UAB), and Guillermo Lorenzo, University of Oviedo

Sergio Balari is a Professor of Linguistics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Guillermo Lorenzo is Professor of Linguistics at Universidad de Oviedo. They are members of an interuniversity team currently working on the developmental basis and evolutionary origins of language, with funds provided by the Spanish Government and FEDER. Sergio Balari is also a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). They have coauthored several articles in leading journals such as Biolinguistics, Biological Theory and International Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

1: The Pains of Being Owenians/Chomskyans/Cartesians at heart
2: My Beloved Monster
3: The Dead End of Communication
4: On True Homologues
5: Computational Homology
6: Introducing Computational Evo Devo
7: Other Minds
8: Conclusions
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