Editing Terrence Deacon (section)

==Fields of research==
Deacon's research combines human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. His work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of [[semiotics|semiotic]] processes underlying animal and human [[communication]], especially [[language]] and [[origin of language|language origins]]. His neurobiological research is focused on determining the nature of the human divergence from typical primate brain [[anatomy]], the cellular-molecular mechanisms producing this difference, and the correlations between these anatomical differences and special human cognitive abilities, again, particularly language.<ref name="faculty" />