 | Charles Darwin, Joy Harvey, Duncan M. Porter, Jonathan R. Topham - 1997 - 1018 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It admits of no ca\iliing. and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words oui of the notes... | |
 | Ronald L. Numbers - 1995 - 432 pages
...touch, — the barrier of language. Language is our Rubicon and no brute will dare to cross it. ... No process of Natural Selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes of birds and animals." (Lessons on the Science of Language, pp. 23, 340, 370. ) False claims have been made... | |
 | Stephen G. Alter - 2005 - 372 pages
...Müller denied that speech could have originated through a Darwinian process: "It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distill significant words out of the notes of birds and the cries of beasts." And, he said, the fact that animals did not speak spoke volumes about the... | |
 | Christine Ferguson - 2006 - 204 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It...out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. (356-7(1862]) Mullet's deployment of language as weapon against the seeming erasure of human species... | |
 | T. E. Bell - 2006 - 214 pages
...for example, Max Miiller writing in 1861 claims, 'no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts.'25 Notably, Fidela, 25 F. Max Miiller, Lectures on the Science of Language (London, 1861),... | |
 | 1898 - 756 pages
...the triumphant conqueror in the primeval struggle for life. Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain or an angle of the skull. It admits of no caviling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of... | |
 | Roy Harris, Talbot J. Taylor - 1997 - 260 pages
...being. 'No process of natural selection,' Miiller proclaimed intransigently in 1861, 'will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts' (Lectures on the science of language. First series. Lecture IX). A couple of years later he had changed... | |
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Language is something more palpable than a fold of the brain, or an angle of the skull. It admits of no cavilling, and no process of natural selection will ever distil significant words out of the notes of birds or the cries of beasts. 
