Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural Hypotheses

Przemysław Żywiczyński is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. Sławomir Wacewicz is an Assistant Professor at the same department. The authors are the founders of NCU’s Center for Language Evolution Studies (CLES).

• Language origins – Language evolution – Evolutionism – History of linguistics – History of ideas – History of science – Glottogony – Glossogeny – Darwinism – Neo-Darwinian synthesis – Biological foundations of language