I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array of structured expressions was in effect instantaneous. I have never heard of an alternative to this suggestion.
Noam ChomskyLatin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
Noam ChomskyThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyInsofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and their ideological support will be subjected to challenge and critique, a counterpart to attitudes that are fostered in the hard sciences wherever they are taken seriously.
Noam Chomsky