0005 What about Sinha’s EcoEvoDevoSocio framework?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
0006 The outer terms, “eco” and “socio”, signify a broad arc of human evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adaptation by a line of apes<\/em> starts with ecological adaptations. For example, bipedalism is evolutionarily ancient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the fact that bipedalism frees the hands for communicative gestures<\/em> creates new opportunities. A truly human niche appears. One hominin can intentionally gesture to another. The other hominin can interpret that gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0007 The frontpiece of the title captures Sinha’s EcoSocio vision. The praxis (or habits) of intentional manual-brachial gestures for communication<\/em> proceeds from signaling to functional representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Functional representation metaphorically runs around the symbol, defined as a sign-relation whose sign-object depends on conventions, habits, laws and so forth.\u00a0\u00a0The more that\u00a0intentional manual-brachial gestures<\/em>\u00a0act as words, the more symbolic they become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this way, hominins become symbol-ready and capable of engaging in language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 0005 What about Sinha’s EcoEvoDevoSocio framework? 0006 The outer terms, “eco” and “socio”, signify a broad arc of human evolution. Adaptation by a line of apes starts with ecological adaptations. For example, bipedalism is evolutionarily ancient. However, the fact that bipedalism frees the hands for communicative gestures creates new opportunities. A truly human niche appears. One hominin can intentionally gesture to another. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,40],"tags":[115,123,125,132,42,122,133,116,131,34,130,135,134],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-evolution-of-talk","category-the-human-niche","tag-adaptation","tag-anthropology","tag-biology","tag-brain","tag-evolution","tag-human","tag-language","tag-niche","tag-ontogeny","tag-peirce","tag-phylogeny","tag-representation","tag-symbol"],"yoast_head":"\n