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Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain
Published in Paperback by MIT Press (01 October, 2001)
Authors: William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton
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The usual lie
Calvin bases his ideas on this 'observation' in chapter 7:

"The axon acts like an express train, skipping many intermediate stops, giving off synapses only when about 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 mm away from the tall dendrite (and sometimes continuing for a few millimeters farther, maintaining the integer multiples of the basic metric, 0.5 mm). "

This is a plain lie.

Conversation on conversation
The so-called "reconcilation" promised by the title is not entirely delivered. Both Calvin and Bickerton seem too taken with their respective ideas. It is an interesting discussion nonetheless, and good points are made by both writers.

David Kimhi's Hebrew Grammar: (Mikhlol): Systematically Presented and Critically Annotated
Published in Paperback by Bloch Pub Co (2001)
Authors: William Chomsky and David Mikhlol Kimhi
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Hebrew: The Eternal Language
Published in Paperback by Jewish Publication Society (1975)
Author: William Chomsky
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