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Although ALife is fundamentally directed towards both the origins of biology and its future , the scope and complexity of its subject require interdisciplinary cooperation and collaboration . " The research , which has been replicated in several baby bonobos in captivity , has value in examining the origins of language , and in challenging the Discontinuity theory of language , which according to some , holds that humans developed a capacity for language due to a genetic mutation some 40,000 years ago . In support of his views on sexual selection , his published academic papers , conference talks , and colloquia , range across the areas of visual perception , cognition , learning , robotics , neural networks , genetic algorithms , human mate choice , evolutionary game theory , and the origins of language , music , culture , intelligence , ideology , and consciousness . The ' other words ' themselves stretch back into an infinity ago , and their ultimate source is linked to that most mysterious genesis , the origins of language itself . The first part of this course will focus on the following : acquiring knowledge concerning the origins of prejudice , developing skills for analyzing conflict , studying models of multicultural society , and examining strategies for preventing and resolving conflict . Other studies are on the origin of modularity in biological systems based on evolution in changing environments , and on the plasticity of the input functions of genes . His anthropological interests and expertise range from hominoid locomotion and evolution , to the origins of language and hunting , to the nature and philosophy of science , to tarsiers and Bambi . What are the theories of the origins of language ? Information , briefer than is found in Camellias The Complete Guide to Their Cultivation and Use , is also provided in areas such as cultivation and propagation , and inserted in the pictorial encyclopedia are short discussions of topics such as the origins of tea and its consumption .