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In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of language itself.The author traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. He offers a new account of the route by which we acquired our defining characteristic and explores the changing nature of language as it developed through the course

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Les études contemporaines démontrent l'existence de capacités langagières au moins virtuelles chez les animaux supérieurs, singes anthropoïdes, mammifères marins et amphibiens, particulièrement. Mises en rapport avec les données des dernières décennies sur ce qui paraît avoir été les langages des premiers humains, ces études autorisent une hypothèse de continuité entre étages infrahumains et humains, qui éclaire d'une nouvelle manière la phylogenèse du langage.

Language and languages --- Language and languages - Origin --- Animal communication

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The book examines the origins of language and grammar and also looks at the nature of being human. As a species, we have a long history of trying to find aspects of ourselves that are exclusively human. Some of the features of humanity thought to be solely the realm of the spiritual - for example cognition and emotion - are increasingly being explained in terms of physical effects. Exclusive physical functions are now questioned too - bipedality, dexterity, socialisation, delayed gratification. Could the differences between the human and animal kingdom be a matter of degrees rather than abso

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Language and languages - Origin. --- Language and languages --- Origin.

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