I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent alternative to the idea that mutations take place in individuals, not communities, so that whatever rewiring of the brain yielded the apparently unique properties of language, specifically recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions, would therefore have taken place in an individual, and only later been used among individuals who had inherited this capacity.
Noam ChomskyThe world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
Noam ChomskyThe government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.
Noam ChomskyShould a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?
Noam Chomsky