title: Environments organize the verbal brain.
abstract: FOXP2 expression in the evolution of language derives from its role in allowing vocal articulation that is sensitive to its consequences. The discrete verbal discourse it allows must have evolved recently relative to affective features of vocal behavior such as tone of voice. Because all organ systems must have evolved in the service of behavior, attention is given to ways in which environments may have driven brain organization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC),Baltimore, MD 21250.catania@umbc.edu.
authors.forename: A Charles
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Catania
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*