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There have been a number of contributions in the past years about language origins from
various points of view. In this book, we intend to contribute to establish a state-of-the-art of …

The question of where human language comes from is something that people have
wondered about since the human mind became capable of forming such questions. Plato in …

In this fascinating book, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary present an original picture
of evolution. They propose that during evolution there have been a number of major …

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 processed in …

As a general rule, books on the origin and evolution of language have either promoted a
particular theory, or continued the debate about whether language has a biological basis (ie …

This book is an important contribution to the literature on language evolution. Fitch (Univ. of
Vienna, Austria), an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist, dedicates half of his tome …

Human beings devote a considerable share of their time, maybe one third of the day (Mehl &
Pennebaker 2003: 866), to sharing information with conspecifics about often futile but …