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Figured I get this page started for week 5's reading(s) and related material. Feel free to post whatever you feel is appropriate here. I'll try to contribute some in the very near future, but for now I'm too exhausted to muster up any precise and coherent thoughts and ideas. - Morgan

It is still widely debated and speculated whether language is derived from a natural selection process but this article tries to show us that if it is thought that all other lifeforms and processes are to be thought of as evolved through natural selection, why would language be any different? Obviously there is no real way to prove one way or another but by basing the evolution of species as a very specific adaptation of processes and systems to the environment, we assume that language was a necessary system that humans needed to develop as well. Of course the idea of which came first, the brain or the language (chicken or egg sound familiar?!) is what created a large part of the disagreement.