Steven Mithen
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age
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ExcellentThe Language Puzzle is a comprehensive biography of the evolution of human language, from its invention 1.6 million years ago to our capabilities today. It rejects outdated ideas and builds bridges between disciplines to forge a new synthesis for the evolution of language.
Format: Hardback
Length: 544 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2024
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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 is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human. The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words. Drawing on 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 talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age. While this radical new work is not shy to reject outdated ideas about language, it builds bridges between disciplines to forge a new synthesis for the evolution of language that will find widespread acceptance as a new standard account for how humanity began.
Weight: 784g
Dimension: 165 x 242 x 48 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800811584
Edition number: Main
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