• 1: The Pains of Being Cartesians/Owenians/Chomskyans at heart


• 2: My Beloved Monster


• 3: The Dead End of Communication


• 4: On True Homologues


• 5: Computational Homology


• 6: Introducing Computational Evo Devo


• 7: Other Minds


• 8: Conclusions


• Appendix


• References


• Index

Sergio Balari is a Professor of Linguistics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Guillermo Lorenzo is Professor of Linguistics at Universidad de Oviedo. They are members of an interuniversity team currently working on the developmental basis and evolutionary origins of language, with funds provided by the Spanish Government and FEDER. Sergio Balari is also a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
They have coauthored several articles in leading journals such as Biolinguistics, Biological Theory and International Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

This book, written accessibly for both biologists and linguists, argues that language is not as exceptional a human trait as some linguists believe it to be. It is rather, according to the authors, just the human version of a fairly common and conservative organic system, the Central Computational Complex.