The origin and diversification of language
By: editors, Nina G. Jablonski, Leslie C. Aiello ; with the editorial assistance of Nancy Gee.
Contributors: Jablonski, Nina G.; Aiello, Leslie.
Series: Wattis Symposium series in anthropology; Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences ;; no. 24; Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences (1988) ;; no. 24.
Publisher: California Academy of Sciences; Distributed by the University of California Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Language and languages -- Congresses; Language and languages -- Origin -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Animal communication and human language / Peter Marler; title: The foundations of human language / Leslie C. Aiello; title: Comparative aspects of human brain evolution : scaling, energy costs, and confounding variables / Robert D. Martin; title: Organizations of semantic knowledge and the origin of words in the brain / Alex Martin; title: Neanderthals, modern humans, and the archaeological evidence for language / Paul A. Mellars; title: The evolution of the human language faculty / Steven Pinker; title: The origin and dispersal of languages : linguistic evidence  / Johanna Nichols; title: The origins of world linguistic diversity : an archaeological perspective / Colin Renfrew.