Comments on Derek Bickerton's Book (2014) More than Nature Needs

Derek Bickerton is an emeritus professor in Linguistics at the University of Hawaii. His other works include Language and Species (1990), along with many publications on the character of pigdin and creole. This work synthesizes ideas from a long and productive career.
The evolution of language has proven to be a difficult topic. Bickerton's work refutes one thesis, proposed by Noam Chomsky and others, that language appeared suddenly by way of a fortuitous mutation. He does so by offering an ...