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'A tour de force' Alice Roberts
'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar
The relationship between language, thought, and culture concerns anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.
Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the grunting cries of our ancestors to our capabilities today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words.
Drawing from the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved. He explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture and how we spoke our way out of the Stone Age into the world of agriculture and swiftly into the Digital Age.
This radical new work does not hesitate to discard old ideas about language, but builds bridges across the sciences to form a new synthesis of language evolution that will find broad acceptance as a new standard narrative of how we began as human beings.
Pages: 544, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm
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- Sociology, Culture
- Language
- English
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- Soft
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- 2024
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- ISBN-13
- 9781800811607
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