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The Talking Ape - How Language Evolved (Paperback, New edition)
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The Talking Ape - How Language Evolved (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies in the Evolution of Language
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In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most
convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of
language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects
the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us
a deeper understanding of the nature of language itself. The author
traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant
ape-like forbears several million years ago. He offers a new
account of the route by which we acquired our defining
characteristic and explores the changing nature of language as it
developed through the course of our evolution. He considers what
the earliest forms of communication are likely to have been, how
they worked, and why they were deployed. He examines the qualities
of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language and
the advantages they offered for survival and reproduction. He
investigates the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and
grammar; and connects work in fields extending from linguistics,
sign languages, and psychology to palaeontology, evolutionary
biology, and archaeology. And he does all this in a style that is
crystal-clear, constantly enlivened by wit and humour.
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