The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain by Terrence W. Deacon

The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Human Brain

Terrence W. Deacon

527 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Human language is one of the most distinctive behavioural adaptations on the planet. Languages evolved in only one species, in only one way, without precedent, and without parallel. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have produced hundreds...

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