W. Tecumseh Fitch

W. Tecumseh Fitch

William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch III (born 1963) is an American evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist at the University of St. Andrews (Fife, Scotland).

He studies the biology and evolution of cognition and communication, both in humans and other animals, and in particular the evolution of speech, language and music. In doing so, he concentrates on comparative approaches as advocated by Charles Darwin, i.e. the study of homologous and analogous structures and processes in a wide range of species.

Fitch was born in Boston and received both his B.A. (1986) in biology and his Ph.D. (1994) in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from Brown University. From 1996-2000, he worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University under Marc Hauser.

He bears the name of his great-great-great-grandfather, William Tecumseh Sherman, as did his father and grandfather before him.

Bibliography

* Fitch, W. T. (1997). "Vocal tract length and formant frequency dispersion correlate with body size in rhesus macaques," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102: 1213-1222.
* Fitch, W. T. (2000). "The evolution of speech: a comparative review," Trends Cog. Sci. 4, 258-267.
* Fitch, W.T. and D. Réby (2001), "The descended larynx is not uniquely human". Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 268(1477): 1669-1675.
* Hauser, M. D., Chomsky, N. & Fitch, W. T. (2002). "The Language Faculty: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?" Science 298: 1569-1579.
* Fitch, W. T., & Hauser, M. D. (2004). "Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate". Science 303: 377-380.
* Fitch, W. T. (2005). "The evolution of language: A comparative review," Biology and Philosophy 20: 193–230.
* Fitch, W. T. (2006). "The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective," Cognition 100: 173-215.

See also

* Biolinguistics
* Biomusicology
* Comparative psychology
* Descended larynx
* Evolutionary psychology
* Hoover (seal)
* Origin of language
* Origin of music
* Vocal learning

External links

* [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wtsf/ Homepage of W. Tecumseh Fitch]


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