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A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection “Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be one of them.�
How Language Began
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Authors: David McNeill
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are process
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Authors: Daniel L. Everett
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-13 - Publisher: Vintage

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A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each cul
Dark Matter of the Mind
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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From a linguist and anthropologist, “a fascinating argument” about culture, cognition, and the concept of human nature (Choice). Is it in our nature to be a
Why Only Us
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Authors: Robert C. Berwick
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-12 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific abili