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Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
Adam's Tongue How Humans Made Language How Language Made Humans
Author: Derek Bickerton
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 diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780809022816
ISBN-10: 0809022818
Publication Date: 3/17/2009
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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