- 359 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Understanding the evolution of language within the context of deep human history requires interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from a wide range of academic disciplines (e. g. archaeology, molecular biology, anthropology, genetics, biochemistry, etc.). The book aims to calibrate work on human evolution with current linguistic theory in an attempt to trace out a scientific story of how human language emerged and developed that has plausibility while remaining open to change through new linguistic and non-linguistic research.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction Medawar leaps
- Chapter 1âStory-telling, Laneâs story, and epigenetic inheritance
- Chapter 2âLanguage and conceptual integration
- Chapter 3âHomo as a container, life in the Great Rift Valley and human bonding
- Chapter 4âThe brain, the larynx and mirror neuron systems
- Chapter 5âHomo habilis and the beginning of symbolic communication
- Chapter 6âThe dispersal of Homo erectus: The âmuddle in the middleâ
- Chapter 7âBuilding a language: From concepts and functions to constructions without rules
- Chapter 8âLanguage, fire and symbolic containers of ritual
- Chapter 9âThe linguistic worlds of H. heidelbergensis: language and âTheory of Mindâ
- Chapter 10âThe counterfactual worlds of early modern humans: H. sapiensâs sorties into real and unreal worlds
- Chapter 11âH. sapiens, the rolling stone that gathered moss
- Chapter 12âThe reunion that wasnât and the challenge that is
- Glossary
- Person index
- Subject index