According to Pinker and Bloom, if the acquisition of language was a trait variation that produced just 1 percent more offspring per generation, how long would it take to see an increase in prevalence from 0.1 percent to 99.9 percent?

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Pinker and Bloom suggest that even a small advantage in language acquisition could lead to a significant increase in prevalence over time. They estimate that a 1 percent reproductive advantage per generation would take about 4000 generations to increase from 0.1 percent to 99.9 percent prevalence.

According to Pinker and Bloom, If the Acquisition of Language