Next Wednesday May 9th at 5:30pm, Lluís Barceló-Coblijn, from the Grup d'Evolució i Cognició Humana, de la Universitat de les Illes Balears will give a lecture based on his research on evolutionary theory and language evolution. The title of the talk will be "Evolutionary theory and language: hybridization and the developmental program of the language faculty". The talk will take place in the room "Sala de Professors", on the fifth floor of the building Josep Carner at the Universitat de Barcelona (Carrer Aribau, 2).
Students eager to read more before the lecture may find relevant material in the following:
Mallet, J. (2005) Hybridization as an invasion of the genome. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 229–237
Hausdorf B. (2011) Progress toward a general species concept. Evolution. Apr; 65(4):923-31
Balari & Lorenzo (2009) Computational Phenotypes: Where the Theory of Computation Meets Evo-Devo. Biolinguistics 3(1): 2–60
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