This book proposes a radically evolutionary approach to biolinguistics that consists in
considering human language as a form of species-specific intelligence entirely embodied in the
corporeal structures of Homo sapiens. The book starts with a historical reconstruction of two
opposing biolinguistic models: the Chomskian Biolinguistic Model (CBM) and the Darwinian
Biolinguistic Model (DBM). The second part compares the two models and develops into a complete
reconsideration of the traditional biolinguistic issues in an evolutionary perspective
highlighting their potential influence on the paradigm of biologically oriented cognitive
science. The third part formulates the philosophical evolutionary and experimental basis of an
extended theory of linguistic performativity within a naturalistic perspective of pragmatics of
verbal language.The book proposes a model in which the continuity between human and non-human
primates is linked to the gradual development of the articulatory and neurocerebral structures
and to a kind of prelinguistic pragmatics which characterizes the common nature of social
learning. In contrast grammatical semantic and pragmatic skills that mark the learning of
historical-natural languages are seen as a rapid acceleration of cultural evolution. The book
makes clear that this acceleration will not necessarily favour the long-term adaptations for
Homo sapiens.
