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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language

Christine Kenneally

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#3333 of 3,809 books · #467 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2007).

An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language. The first popular book to recount the exciting, very recent developments in tracing the origins of language, The First Word is at the forefront of a controversial, compelling new field. Christine Kenneally explains how a relatively small group of scientists that include Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker assembled the astounding narrative of how the fundamental process of evolution produced a linguistic ape-in other words, us. Infused with the wonder of discovery, this vital and engrossing book offers us all a better understanding of the story of humankind.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
ISBN-13
9780143113744
Topics
Origins of languageEvolutionary linguisticsHuman evolution

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