Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans by Derek Bickerton

Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

Derek Bickerton

286 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective slow-paced
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How language evolved has been called “the hardest problem in science.” In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as...

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