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Review of Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny’s From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language - Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language. Cambridge: The MIT Press (2021), 296 pp. $35.00 (hardcover)

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Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language. Cambridge: The MIT Press (2021), 296 pp. $35.00 (hardcover)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2023

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Travis LaCroix*
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Dalhousie University, Department of Philosophy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , January 2024 , pp. 257 - 260
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association

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