HOW LANGUAGE BEGAN

How Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the lords of the planet.Mankind ha s a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of comm unication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a bombshell linguist and instant folk hero (Tom Wolfe, Harpers), provides in this sweepi ng history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than se...[Read more]