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published
May 27th 2008
by Penguin (Non-Classics)
binding
Paperback, 368 pages
isbn
0143113747
(isbn13: 9780143113744)
description
An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language
The first popular book to recount the excit...more
The first popular book to recount the excit...more
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Christine Kenneally's take on how we've finally begin to explore the evolution of language is well written and well researched. In essence, she tells the story of how researchers overcame the long standing closed mindedness in and around the study of language and how it emerged. Ironically Kenneally inadvertently promotes this same closed mindedness by assuming and blatantly promoting her opinion that evolution is only source of language. As a compendium of the past half century's advances in la...more
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