The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language - Softcover

Kenneally, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143113747 ISBN 13: 9780143113744

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008

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An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language

The first popular book to recount the exciting, very recent developments in tracing the origins of language, The First Word is at the forefront of a controversial, compelling new field. Acclaimed science writer Christine Kenneally explains how a relatively small group of scientists that include Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker assembled the astounding narrative of how the fundamental process of evolution produced a linguistic ape-in other words, us. Infused with the wonder of discovery, this vital and engrossing book offers us all a better understanding of the story of humankind.

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Author of The Invisible History of the Human Race and The First Word, Christine Kenneally is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, Time, New Scientist, The Monthly, and other publications. Before becoming a reporter, she received a PhD in linguistics from Cambridge University and a BA (with honors) in English and linguistics from Melbourne University. She was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in England, Iowa, and Brooklyn, New York.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0143113747
• ISBN 13: 9780143113744
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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