Human nature derives from the conflict between our better and poorer “angels.” This much one can glean from the pages of literature, history, philosophy, and (when read from a non-theistic perspective) theology. In The Social Conquest of Earth (SCE), biologist Edward O. Wilson goes on to attribute this conflict to multilevel natural selection, “in which individual selection and group selection ...

Human sound systems are invariably phonemically coded, which means that there are parts of syllables that are re-used in other syllables. It is one of the most primitive compositional system in language. To explain this phenomenon, there existed so far three kinds of approaches : “Chomskyan”/cognitive innatism, morpho-perceptual innatism and the more recent approach of “language as a complex cu...

Human sound systems are invariably phonemically coded. Furthermore, phoneme inventories follow very particular tendancies. To explain these phenomena, there existed so far three kinds of approaches : \Chomskyan"/cognitive innatism, morpho-perceptual innatism and the more recent approach of \language as a complex cultural system which adapts under the pressure of eÆcient communication". The two ...