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Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781668066058ISBN-10:166806605XUPC:9781668066058Book Category:Science, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Women's Studies, LinguisticsBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.54 x 5.81 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC9TTWF32J
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care for our children. Journeying to the dawn of Homo sapiens, evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman reveals the "happy accidents" hidden in our molecular biology--DNA, chromosomes, and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781668066058ISBN-10:166806605XUPC:9781668066058Book Category:Science, Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Women's Studies, LinguisticsBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.54 x 5.81 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC9TTWF32J
Madeleine Beekman is professor emerita of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia. In the academic year of 2020-21, Beekman was a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), which is where the idea for The Origin of Language was born. She currently lives with her husband in Australia's northern tropical...
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