LINGUIST List 6.189  Sat 11 Feb 1995  Disc: Innateness/ Language
& Species  Editor for this issue: <>     1. Sherman Wilcox, Re:
6.132 Innateness   2. , 6.136 Language and Species   3. benji
wald, lg & species  Message 1: Re: 6.132 Innateness  Date: Thu,
2 Feb 1995 12:13:54 -Re: 6.132 Innateness From: Sherman Wilcox
<> Subject: Re: 6.132 Innateness  Don Churma writes:  "This
elephant is too big for any one "blind man" to figure out
alone!"  Probably true, especially for this blind man, but we
probably should keep our hands firmly in contact with the beast
anyway. For me, this means taking to heart warnings such as
Michael Studdert-Kennedy's:  "Characteristic motor systems have
evolved for locomotion, predation, consumption, mating. Matching
perceptual systems have evolved to guide the animan in these
activities. The selection pressure shaping each species'
perceptuomotor capacities have come, in the first instance, from
physical properties of the world. By contrast, these
perceptuomotor capacities themselves