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The origin of language : how we learned to speak and why / by Beekman, Madeleine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In a radical new story about the birth of our species, evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman argues that it was not hunting, tool-making, or fighting that led to human speech, but the need to care for our helpless young. This thought-provoking work explores how cooperation and childrearing drove the emergence of language.
Subjects: Communication in anthropology.; Human evolution.; Language and languages; Mother and child;
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