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My research at the University of East London is focused on the evolutionary emergence of human language and symbolic culture. Unlike many others who have addressed such topics, I have resisted the temptation to choose between Darwinian perspectives and those of linguists and social anthropologists. Instead, I have subordinated my hypothesis-building to the constraints of standard Darwinian theory while insisting that any model must be testable in the light of linguistic and symbolic cultural data.

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