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Application of Evolutionary Dynamics to Language
The Evolution of language addresses the manner and historical circumstances by which human language evolved. Two approaches have been taken to investigate this process. The first approach analyzes directly related topics which have evidence that can inform the evolutionary process. The second approach assumes that the evolution of language can be gauged by physical artifacts and remnants of early humans. For example, it was determined that the first fully developed language is over 75,000 years old from shell beads found in South Africa. This second approach is described as a "window on language evolution". These windows are tool to frame the study and make insights from. This field offers insights into how different cultures and populations assimilated to use a unified language, which can be applied to relevant modern day fields like robotics, in regards to learning about how effective behavior works within a groups of different backgrounds.

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Application of Evolutionary Dynamics to Language
The Evolution of language addresses the manner and historical circumstances by which human language evolved and is an innately difficult field in which to study, due to an absence of evidence because of the nature of the subject matter. Two approaches have been taken to investigate this process. The first approach analyzes directly related topics which have evidence that can inform the evolutionary process. The second approach assumes that the evolution of language can be gauged by physical artifacts and remnants of early humans. This second approach is described as a "window on language evolution". These windows are tool to frame the study and make insights from. Within these two approaches, it is important to understand the scope of what different articles and authors mean by "language" so that debates and discussions can be insightful. The first is the restrictive definition of language, and refers to language as a capacity and skill set, whereas the loose definition more broadly includes any group behavior or activity. This field offers insights into how different cultures and populations assimilated to use a unified language, which can be applied to relevant modern day fields like robotics, in regards to learning about how effective behavior works within a groups of different backgrounds.

Windows approach to the Evolution of Language
Direct evidence of how language evolved is impossible to come by, so the artifacts and tools that were representations of our ancestor's forms of communication are a good way of approximating how language has changed. The Windows approach acknowledges that language cannot be fully understood without historical context in which it developed. Examples of these lenses include stone tools, fossilized fragments of human skulls, and pidgin languages. 75,000 year old shells from the Blombos cave in South African are an example of how these artifacts can be extrapolated from to gain insight to culture. Based off the specific types of dorsal perforations on the shells it could be reasonably inferred that these shells were worn as beads, and from this researchers could infer they were symbolic, which therefore implied that these early humans likely had a fully syntactical language.

Applications of the Evolution of Language in Understanding Human Culture
Understanding how the evolution of language offers insight into how human ancestors moved towards a more industrial and technological society, just as the discovery of different artifacts are an indicator for increasing human mental capacities. For example, in an modern day experiment it was shown that Oldowan stone tools were more easily made by test-students whose teachers were able to communicate with them via language, as opposed to another group of students where a teacher could only convey the process by imitation and emulation. This sort of understanding helps explain why there was a 700,000 year long period of technological stagnation of Oldowan tools. Additionally, understanding the a process of selection that some propose came about by natural selection to reduce errors in communication gives us a broader insight into understanding the evolutionary theory as a whole.