HOW LANGUAGE BEGAN

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet ges tures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research o n the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and gesture evolved together into a system that all humans possess. Nearly all theorizing about the origins of language either ignores g esture, v...[Read more]