Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language
Discussions of language tend to start from the assumption that it is a uniquely human trait without antecedent in the animal kingdom.Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Languageforcefully challenges this assumption. Lieberman brings together a wide range of evidence from comparative anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, genetics, neuropsychology, and linguistics to illuminate the protolinguistic abilities in other species. (Joseph T. DevlinScience2006-11-10)