William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch III (born 1963) is an American evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist at the University of St. Andrews (Fife, Scotland). Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of Biology concerned with the origin of Species from a Common descent, and Descent of species Cognitive science may be broadly defined as the multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior The University of St Andrews is the oldest University in Scotland and third oldest in the English-speaking world, having been founded between Fife ( Gaelic: Fìobha) is a Council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland

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. Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life e. the study of homologous and analogous structures and processes in a wide range of species. In Evolutionary biology, homology has come to mean any similarity between characters that is due to their shared ancestry. Convergent evolution describes the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated lineages In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank.

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. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Brown University is a highly esteemed private University located in Providence, Rhode Island and is a member of the Ivy League. From 1996-2000, he worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University under Marc Hauser. A postdoctoral fellow (colloquially " post-doc " is a temporary research position held by a person who has completed his or her doctoral studies Marc D Hauser (25 October 1959 is an Evolutionary biologist who teaches at the Psychology Department at Harvard University.

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. Marc D Hauser (25 October 1959 is an Evolutionary biologist who teaches at the Psychology Department at Harvard University. Avram Noam Chomsky (noÊŠm ˈtʃɑmski born December 7 1928 is an American linguist, Philosopher, cognitive scientist, Political 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). Marc D Hauser (25 October 1959 is an Evolutionary biologist who teaches at the Psychology Department at Harvard University. "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

• Homepage of W. Tecumseh Fitch

Biolinguistics is the study of the Biology and evolution of Language. Biomusicology is the study of Music from a biological point of view Psychologists and scientists do not always agree on what should be considered Comparative Psychology. The larynx (plural larynges) colloquially known as the voicebox, is an organ in the Neck of Mammals involved in protection of the Evolutionary psychology ( EP) attempts to explain mental and psychological traits €”such as Memory, Perception, Hoover (1971? &mdash July 25, 1985) was a Harbor seal who was able to imitate basic Human speech. The origin of language ( glottogony) is a topic that has attracted considerable speculation throughout human history In the History of music, prehistoric music (previously called primitive music) is all Music produced in preliterate cultures ( Prehistory Vocal Learning is the ability of Animals to modify vocal signals in form as a result of experience with those of other individuals

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