Theory: human language usage is a communication component of complex skills, along with perception and action. Language is based on the evolution of skills among vertebrates.     Methodology: analyses of information processing requirements and simulation-based feasibility studies

Organization		Pages: Interactive modules in blue Future pages in green		Annotation
		Title Page
		Notice and Disclaimer
		Preface
		Introduction to the research study
		Framework for the research study
		Introduction to the methodology underlying the research
Evolution from an information processing perspective
The model: Information processing mechanisms underlying evolution				Learning with successive populations
		Part 7: A simple and abstract model of the basic process of evolution		variability and selection for copying attributes such as skills from one generation to the next
		Part 8: Attribute evolution, in 2 dimensions		single parent, 2 attributes, and a highly simplified geography
		Part 9: 2 parents and 2 attributes		adding localized mating competition to selection
Applying the mechanisms of evolution to skills				Copying, selection, and variation with skill-learning by mimicry
		Part 8: Copying skills through DNA		Variations that keep skill coherence?
		Part 9: Mimicry for the evolution of skills		Imprinting, apprenticeship as a second channel for evolution-based learning/improving skills
		Part 10: experimentation for the within-individual evolution of skills		within-individual learning and improvement for successive collections of skills in memory
Multi-individual skills requiring inter-individual communication as an additional integrated component of skilled action
'outer communication' for skills requiring coordinated action				Using behavioural signals, vision, and sound: Adding communication to perception and action
		One-way communication such as alerting and advertising		warning, mate selection
		Two-way communication for coordination		timing, positioning, role selection
		Structured apprenticeship and schooling		assigned roles for leader/master/teacher and student
Evolution of human spoken language				independent of inner language, but draws on its structures
		DNA-based components		sound-based mimicry, eye-hand mimicry, etc.
		Within-individual evolution of speech and hearing skills		babble and sound discrimination skills have local differential selection for different languages
		Mimicry of sound production and linking auditory perception to pointing		also dependent on local selection rules
		There is likely no shared semantic space		professional schools and other apprenticeships produce overlapping islands of meaning
		The oral tradition		stories and tales that explain and instruct
		mimicry through instruction manuals		language in schooling?
		printing - the Web and Google		information access
Evolution based on language
Evolution using language as copying mechanism				distinct knowledge elements as individuals in a semantic space
		stories, metaphors, myths, and scientific theories		content is copied, varied, and selected
		money, corporations, politics, advertising		largely language-based constructs that appear to evolve over time by copying, varying, and selection
		Methodology
Requirements, constraints, and feasibility				studies for the design of complex system
		key design risks		incremental design and prototyping