The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
By: Sverker Johansson
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistic…
Want to Read $ 3.99"I discovered something that was more exciting than physics: language."-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
"I discovered something that was more exciting than physics: language."-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
"It is possible, in principle, that language suddenly appeared fully formed during human evolution without any gradual or intermediate forms. That notion, a linguistic Big Bang, has been championed by linguists such as Noam Chomsky. But it is extremely improbable, biologically speaking, that such a complex characteristic as our capacity for speech just popped out of nowhere. It is more likely that language evolved in several stages in the same way, for instance, as our large brains did or our toolmaking ability."-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
"It is possible, in principle, that language suddenly appeared fully formed during human evolution without any gradual or intermediate forms. That notion, a linguistic Big Bang, has been championed by linguists such as Noam Chomsky. But it is extremely improbable, biologically speaking, that such a complex characteristic as our capacity for speech just popped out of nowhere. It is more likely that language evolved in several stages in the same way, for instance, as our large brains did or our toolmaking ability."-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
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2. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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5. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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6. God: An Anatomy
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10. The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
By: Sverker Johansson
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