How do languages evolve? New review article by NCCR team
Bickel, Giraud, Zuberbühler and Van Schaik compare linguistic evolution with the evolutionary mechanisms in organisms and in technology and discuss theoretical and methodological implications.
Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberbühler, Carel P. van Schaik, Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution, Physics of Life Reviews, Volume 50, 2024, Pages 211-225, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.08.003.