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Shigeru Miyagawa is a linguist and an expert on online education. He has published widely in linguistics, including three recent books from MIT Press. Recently, he developed the Integration Hypothesis for human language evolution, which proposes that human language arose from the combination of simpler systems, including those that are associated with birdsong and also primate alarm calls.
This work was featured in a BBC Radio 4 program, What the songbird said. The idea was also an inspiration for Pete Wyer’s choral composition, The Song of the Human, which premiered at the Winter Garden of the World Trade Center in New York.
For his work on language and evolution, he was awarded the São Paulo Excellence Chair. Along with his home institution, MIT, he has held positions at the University of Tokyo, University of São Paulo, and Seikei University in Tokyo.
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Shigeru Miyagawa is a linguist and an expert on online education. He has published widely in linguistics, including three recent books from MIT Press. Recently, he developed the Integration Hypothesis for human language evolution, which proposes that human language arose from the combination of simpler systems, including those that are associated with birdsong and also primate alarm calls.
This work was featured in a BBC Radio 4 program, What the songbird said. The idea was also an inspiration for Pete Wyer’s choral composition, The Song of the Human, which premiered at the Winter Garden of the World Trade Center in New York.
For his work on language and evolution, he was awarded the São Paulo Excellence Chair. Along with his home institution, MIT, he has held positions at the University of Tokyo, University of São Paulo, and Seikei University in Tokyo.
#ai #science #economy #evolution #anthropology #history
